Slang & Dialect Humour

From Monte Carlo to Shanghai, Bikini to Samarra, Around the World in 80 Words is a whimsical voyage through the far-flung reaches of the English la...

Have the craic while creating over 6 million uniquely Irish insults to mock the eejits in your life without causing ructions Has an awful shitehaw...

This essential phrasebook collects the most colourful, explicit and outrageous ways to tell people off in different languages from all around the w...

'Stuffed with entertaining detail ... Horrible Words is lively, provocative, witty and enlightening' The TimesNothing inflames the language purists...

Lost in Translation is 140 wacky, weird and wonderful snapshots of the English language being abused abroad and at home. Whether it''s d...

What's ILL in one place can be WACK in another, or the same word can actually have TOTES different meanings. It's CRAY CRAY! From KEWL girls hitti...

The Scots have a unique way of communicating their feelings. Their sayings are cheeky, to the point, rude and always funny. Scotlands bestselling h...

Australians pride themselves on being easy-going and informal. Their vocabulary with its colour, humour and inventiveness reflects these qualities....

More Overheard in Dublin: another 500 quotes from the ever popular website Taxi driver complaining about Tániste Mary Coughlan: I didn't like h...

An hilarious and often wise collection of Scots saying straight from the mouths of the Grannies of Glasgow. With each snippet accompanied by a stra...

With illustrations by Terry Willers For the unprepared visitor Irish conversation can be a minefield. 'How's the craic ?' is not an assumption tha...