That's the Ticket for Soup! - Crystal, David
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The vocabulary of past times is always fascinating, especially when we see how it was pilloried by the satirists of the day. In this intriguing collection, David Crystal has pored through the pages of the satirical magazine 'Punch', and reveals how many present-day feelings about words have their origins over a century ago.

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The vocabulary of past times is always fascinating, especially when we see how it was pilloried by the satirists of the day. In this intriguing collection, David Crystal has pored through the pages of the satirical magazine 'Punch', and reveals how many present-day feelings about words have their origins over a century ago.
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David Crystal is a writer, editor, lecturer, and broadcaster on language. He is honorary professor of linguistics at Bangor University. His many books include The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language and two historical explorations of English vocabulary for the Bodleian Library, We Are Not Amused and That's the Ticket for Soup.