Did you know that . . . a soldier\"s biggest social blunder is called jack brew - making yourself a cuppa without making one for anyone else? That twitchers have an expression for a bird that can\"t be identified - LBJ (the letters stand for Little Brown Job)? Or that builders call plastering the ceiling doing Lionel Richie\"s dancefloor?...

Susie Dent is here to take children on a rip-roaring tour through some of the most astonishing, amusing and sometimes quite revolting backgrounds of English words. Did you know, for instance, that \'fizzle\' originally meant to break wind......

This book goes back to basics, delivering unique and proprietary assessments, models, and maps to provide the rationale and blueprint for why business leaders must start to build culture for success in digital age....

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2007 is the fifth year of The Language Report\'s publication and provides a unique opportunity to look back at five years\' worth of developments in all aspects of language, charting both small and dramatic changes in areas as diverse as punctuation and political jargon....