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Liked It Rated 5 stars “Best fake dictionary ever. Hilarious meanings for place names that sound like they should mean something.” see full review » see other reviews »

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  • Rated 5 stars

  “Best fake dictionary ever. Hilarious meanings for place names that sound like they should mean something. ”

  Cat B wrote this review Wednesday, November 25 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
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  • Rated 3 stars

  “my edition is in german.
  so this explains why i only say "three of five"”

  Pia S wrote this review Sunday, October 18 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
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  “It's a dictionary so it's a book you can pick up whenever you want and read a few phrases and have a laugh. Fun at parties.”

  Staale N wrote this review Sunday, August 2 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
  • Rated 5 stars

  “So funny - in English and in German / auf deutsch”

  Bettina W wrote this review Saturday, June 27 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
  • Rated 3 stars

  “Very weird, not a book really, more a dictionary I guess...”

  Peter wrote this review Tuesday, June 23 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
  • Rated 5 stars

  “This book is full of rather witty reassignments for place names that aren't being used for much anyway. How often have all of us wished there was a good word to describe a thing, a phenomenon, or a feeling? Isn't the world a better place now that we have Douglas Adams's answer to this puzzling problem? Isn't it nice to know that a grimsby is a lump of gristle that is either in your food through careless cooking or sometimes placed there deliberately by Freemasons? Or that a sidcup is one of those hats you make out of a handkerchief with the corners tied in knots? I don't know about you, but I'm glad to know that someone has done this . . . and on top of that, it's roaringly funny sometimes, prompting a reader to bookmark favorite words and read them out loud to similarly-minded friends. It's got that very typical English "scent" to its language, as well, and the maps in the beginning that get sillier and sillier as you go on are priceless.”

  swankivy wrote this review Thursday, January 22 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No