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✍ Briain, Dara O 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 Penguin UK 🌐 English ⚖ 227 KB

Nostalgia, identity, eccentricity, gin drinking and occasional violence... these are just some of the themes that stand-up comedian Dara O Briain explores in Tickling the English. O Briain moved to England many years ago, but when he takes his show on tour around the country from deserted seaside to

Tickling the English - Notes on a Country and Its People from an Irish Funnyman on Tour

✍ Briain, Dara O 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 Penguin UK 🌐 English ⚖ 430 KB

Nostalgia, identity, eccentricity, gin drinking and occasional violence... these are just some of the themes that stand-up comedian Dara O Briain explores in Tickling the English. O Briain moved to England many years ago, but when he takes his show on tour around the country from deserted seaside to

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✍ Karen Dakin 📂 Article 📅 1986 🏛 American Anthropological Association 🌐 English ⚖ 278 KB

Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English World

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✍ John M. MacKenzie 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 Wiley (Blackwell Publishing) 🌐 English ⚖ 127 KB

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✍ Cloutier, Robert A.; Hamilton-Brehm, Anne Marie; Kretzschmar, Jr., William A. 📂 Article 📅 2010 🏛 DE GRUYTER MOUTON 🌐 German ⚖ 338 KB

This collection of essays focuses on current approaches to variation and change in historical English grammar and lexicon. Of the twelve papers in the collection, half are based on grammar and syntax, half on lexical developments. The volume highlights the contributions that strong empirical researc

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Report of Experiments Made on the Tides in the Irish Sea; on the Similarity of the Tidal Phenomena of the Irish and English Channels; and on the Importance of Extending the Experiments round the Land's-End and up the English Channel. Embodied in a Letter to the Hydrographer

✍ Beechey, F. W. 📂 Article 📅 1851 🏛 The Royal Society ⚖ 247 KB