Dimensions
178 x 231 x 53mm
Millennium (16th) Edition.
This is one of the world's best-loved reference books. First published in 1870, this treasury of "words that have a tale to tell" has established itself as one of the great reference classics - the first port of call for tens of thousands of terms, phrases and proper names, and a fund of fascinating, unusual and out-of-the-way information.
For the Millennium Edition of the book, the entire existing text has been revised and updated and over 1,000 new articles added. These include:
- Recent expressions (the full monty, do one's head in, hit the ground running, Montezuma's revenge)
- Recent events and organisations (Black Wednesday, Taliban)
- Famous nicknames (Fab Four)
- Historical and fictional characters (Attila the Hun, Anne Frank)
Brand-new articles on hurricane names, celebrated place-names in literature, and Romany names of English towns and counties continue the century-old Brewer's practice of recording unexpected and fascinating information that is not available in other general reference book.
