Nigel ReesBesprekingen

Nigel Rees is an expert on popular language and phraseology, with his own BBC Radio 4 programme Quote... Unquote. He has also appeared on Channel 4 TV's Countdown. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Almost every family has sayings that are a kind of private language and which, in many cases, continue in use across the generations. These family sayings are often impenetrable to outsiders, but there is also a rich vein of domestic catch phrase that is common to many families, and it is this that Nigel Rees celebrates in As We Say In Our House. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, but especially on family sayings that have been contributed to his BBC Radio programme Quote...Unquote, Nigel Rees provides a shamelessly nostalgic and warmly humorous record of an area of language that would otherwise go largely unrecorded. The popular expressions explored here also include personal mottoes, peculiar proverbs and nonsensical riddles.

Classic browsing fun, although maybe not quite for all the family...

Maybe the best of the bunch, I almost felt that some extras had come out of the woodwork when a broader spectrum of people realised that Nigel Rees was collecting and publishing these.

Maybe shows that it's the third and last, but you simply can't not have it and enjoy it alongside the others.

A quote book of love and sex.

There comes a point when every woman has to face up to being an old broad.
Ava Gardner 1984

I love books about slang and quips and pithy sayings. My mother used a lot of colloquialisms and when she died my sister and I tried to remember and collect the things she used to say. Reading books like this brings her voice vividly to life as so many of the lines are familiar.

I loved this book. I love revisiting and remembering sources.

Meanings and origins of phrases from a wide range of cultural sources. So many are familiar to me. Much humour in how people communicate.

More interesting phrases and lines. I love how people use language to express things.

Good concept; poor execution. Some of the print sat on dark backgrounds and was very difficult to read.

Preface claims that all content has been verified, but many of them turned out to be rumored or only reported in print. Much material 'borrowed' from previous books of this type.

A terrific collection of Epitaphs,most of which are very funny.
'Here lies
Captain Ernest Bloomfield
Accidentally shot by his Orderly
March 2nd 1789
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
Well done,thou good and faithfull servant.'

'Erected to the memory of
John McFarlane
Drowned in the Water of Leith
By a few affectionate friends.'

These are a couple of examples of the many epitaphs is this book.½

An amusing collection of Quotations,factual and fictional,from that master wordsmith, Nigel Rees. Illustrated with some fitting drawings by Michael Ffolkes.
As Lewis Carroll is quoted in the Preface as writing in 'The Hunting of the Snark' - They were all of them fond of quotations -.½

This is a really cute, and rather funny little book. Apart from its size, it's a terrific coffee-table book, with little snippets to read aloud and discuss - with enough background on each to lend atmosphere and context for each pithy epitaph. Makes me think I should start now planning my own.... hmmm.....

A ridiculously informative book.

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