Name Dropping: A No-nonsense Guide to the Use of Names in Everyday Language by Philip Gooden
Name Dropping: A No-nonsense Guide to the Use of Names in Everyday Language

Philip Gooden

Name Dropping: A No-nonsense Guide to the Use of Names in Everyday Language

Philip Gooden

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Have you ever had a Hitchcockian experience (in the shower, perhaps?) or met someone with a distinctly Ortonesque outlook on life? What exactly do we mean when we describe a scene as Dickensian, or when we call a politician’s style Churchillian or...

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