false 2322 13 Does the sensation of <b>Tingrith</b>(1) make you yelp? Do you bend sympathetically when you see someone <b>Ahenny</b>(2)? Can you deal with a<b> Naugatuck</b>(3) without causing a <b>Toronto</b>(4)? Will you suffer from<b> Kettering</b>(5) this summer? <br><br>Probably. You are almost certainly familiar with all these experiences but just didn't know that there are words for them. Well, in fact, there aren't - or rather there weren't, until Douglas Adams and John Lloyd decided to plug these egregious linguistic <b>lacunae</b>(6). They quickly realized that just as there are an awful lot of experiences that no one has a name for, so there are an awful lot of names for places you will never need to go to. What a waste. As responsible citizens of a small and crowded world, we must all learn the virtues of recycling(7) and put old, worn-out but still serviceable names to exciting, vibrant, new uses. This is the book that does that for you: <i>The Deeper Meaning of Liff</i> - a whole new solution to the problem of <b>Great Wakering</b>(8)<br><br><br>1. The feeling of aluminum foil against your fillings.<br><br>2. The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves.<br><br>3. A plastic packet containing shampoo, mustard, etc., which is impossible to open except by biting off <br>the corners.<br><br>4. Generic term for anything that comes out in a gush, despite all your efforts to let it out carefully, e.g., flour into a white sauce, ketchup onto fish, a dog into the yard, and another naughty meaning that we can't put on the cover.<br><br>5. The marks left on your bottom and thighs after you've been sitting sunbathing in a wicker chair.<br><br>6. God knows what this means<br><br>7. For instance, some of this book was first published in Britain twenty-six years ago.<br><br>8. Look it up yourself. 1120220 1983 The Deeper Meaning of Liff: A Dictionary of Things There Aren't Any Words for Yet--But There Ought to Be total:736|5:199|4:248|3:205|2:78|1:6| 736 2764 1231 44 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 15:55:19 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 16:11:44 -0700 2009 Eads: The sludgy bits at the bottom of the dustbin, underneath the actual bin liner.
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This is a dictionary of those things.

Ely: The feeling that something, somewhere has just gone horribly wrong.

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Depford(n).
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For years, people have been complaining that nowadays we only use a tiny fraction of English vocabulary. On the other hand, there are words we need to fit into our brain, because it's important (names of cities, streets, etc.)

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To spend large periods of your life looking for car keys.
Memus (MEE-mus) n.
The little trick people use to remind themselves which is left and which is right.
Smyrna (SMUR-nah) n.
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I can't say I've read them all (yet), but I get going and within a few I'm laughing so hard, my sides hurt.

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KENTUCKEY
Fitting exactly and satisfyingly. The cardboard box that slides neatly into an exact space in a garage, or the last book which exactly fills a bookshelf, is said to fit “real nice and kentuckey”.
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