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Old Dog and Duck : The Secret Meanings of Pub Names by Albert Jack (2011, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Books, The Limited
ISBN-100141043431
ISBN-139780141043432
eBay Product ID (ePID)237451606
Product Key Features
Number of Pages304 Pages
Publication NameOld Dog and Duck : the Secret Meanings of Pub Names
LanguageEnglish
SubjectRéférence, General, Europe / Great Britain, Linguistics / Etymology
Publication Year2011
TypeTextbook
AuthorAlbert Jack
Subject AreaTravel, Référence, Language Arts & Disciplines, Business & Economics, History
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight8 Oz
Item Length7.1 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal647.9541
SynopsisThis is a book for everyone who has ever wondered why pubs should be called The Cross Keys, The Dew Drop Inn or The Hope and Anchor. You'll be glad to know that there are very good - strange and memorable - reasons behind them all. After much research about (and in) pubs, Albert Jack brings together the stories behind pub names to reveal how they offer fascinating and subversive insights on our history, customs, attitudes and jokes in just the same way that nursery rhymes do. The Royal Oak, for instance, commemorates the tree that hid Charles II from Cromwell's forces after his defeat at Worcester; The Bag of Nails is a corruption of the Bacchanals, the crazed followers of Bacchus, the god of wine and drunkenness; The Cat and the Fiddle a mangling of Catherine La Fidele and a guarded gesture of support for Henry VIII's first, Catholic, wife Catherine of Aragon; plus many, many more. Here too are even more facts about everything from ghosts to drinking songs to the rules of cribbage and shove ha'penny, showing that, ultimately, the story of pub history is really the story of our own popular history., This is a book for everyone who has ever wondered why pubs should be called The Cross Keys , The Dew Drop Inn or The Hope and Anchor . You'll be glad to know that there are very good - strange and memorable - reasons behind them all. After much research about (and in) pubs, Albert Jack brings together the stories behind pub names to reveal how they offer fascinating and subversive insights on our history, customs, attitudes and jokes in just the same way that nursery rhymes do. The Royal Oak , for instance, commemorates the tree that hid Charles II from Cromwell's forces after his defeat at Worcester; The Bag of Nails is a corruption of the Bacchanals, the crazed followers of Bacchus, the god of wine and drunkenness; The Cat and the Fiddle a mangling of Catherine La Fidele and a guarded gesture of support for Henry VIII's first, Catholic, wife Catherine of Aragon; plus many, many more. Here too are even more facts about everything from ghosts to drinking songs to the rules of cribbage and shove ha'penny, showing that, ultimately, the story of pub history is really the story of our own popular history.
LC Classification NumberTX950.59
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