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What do you call the groove that runs between your nose and your mouth? What is the name for the stringy bits of a banana? What's the right word for the long white exhaust trail of an aeroplane? What is that thingummy called? The world is full of thingummies - things we ought to know the names for, probably think we do know the names for, but when it comes to it we don't. "The Thingummy" is a lighthearted but informative look at everything from a-line skirts to umbrellas. It provides us with the real names for many of those elusive thingummies complete with the history, myth and anecdote behind them. Grasp "The Thingummy" and you'll never grasp helplessly for words again.
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We all grasp helplessly for thingummies every day: 'Pass the thingummy..' 'where's that thingummy' or just for variation as we stammer for words: 'use the blasted whatchamacallit', even 'there's an itch in my doodah'. So how perfect to have a book to hand for those ever more frequent moments of inarticulacy. Buy it for yourself. Better, buy another as a kindness - we are none of us too young for the occasional senior moment. This will delight all wordsmiths. There are words here you never even knew you didn't know.
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What do you call the groove that runs between your nose and your mouth? What is the name for the stringy bits of a banana? What's the right word for the long white exhaust trail of an aeroplane? What is that thingummy called? The world is full of thingummies - things we ought to know the names for, probably think we do know the names for, but when it comes to it we don't. "The Thingummy" is a lighthearted but informative look at everything from a-line skirts to umbrellas. It provides us with the real names for many of those elusive thingummies complete with the history, myth and anecdote behind them. Grasp "The Thingummy" and you'll never grasp helplessly for words again.
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We all grasp helplessly for thingummies every day: 'Pass the thingummy..' 'where's that thingummy' or just for variation as we stammer for words: 'use the blasted whatchamacallit', even 'there's an itch in my doodah'. So how perfect to have a book to hand for those ever more frequent moments of inarticulacy. Buy it for yourself. Better, buy another as a kindness - we are none of us too young for the occasional senior moment. This will delight all wordsmiths. There are words here you never even knew you didn't know.
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