Written by John Lloyd

Number 3 in The Meaning of Liff

Publisher: Faber & Faber
Pages: 208
Genre: Nonfiction, Humour
Published: 2012-01-01
Original Language: English

What should we call 'something that looks like minced beef but isn't'? Minsk, of course! 'Luxuriant nostril hairs'? Utrillas! Three decades after Douglas Adams and QI creator John Lloyd compiled The Meaning of Liff, here is a new collection of more than 900 familiar things that have hitherto remained unnamed, an oversight now corrected by recycling the appellations of places near and far.