<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14521251.post-114209345140903660</id><published>2006-03-11T16:05:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-02-27T19:58:17.044Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cultural Studies'/><title type='text'>Balderdash and Piffle</title><summary type='text'>By Alex Games(Buy this book and any other 5 of your choice, for just $1)'Balderdash and Piffle' looks into words and phrases, their origins and usage and how they have developed over time. The beginnings of speech - who spoke first and what did they say? How are words connected to thought, how does irony add meaning to words. What are people?s favourite words?   Dr Johnson?s dictionary was 250 </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://worthyread.blogspot.com/feeds/114209345140903660/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14521251&amp;postID=114209345140903660' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14521251/posts/default/114209345140903660'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14521251/posts/default/114209345140903660'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://worthyread.blogspot.com/2006/03/balderdash-and-piffle.html' title='Balderdash and Piffle'/><author><name>Abercromby</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10787951638372777151'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry>