This is the Yorkshire edition of the humorous dictionary of
toponymy and etymology, created by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd. If
you opened this book expecting to find a variety of quaint thee and
thy-based colloquialisms with the odd "ee-by-gum" and "tha'll be
reet" thrown in for good measure, you may be a little
disappointed...However, if you picked up this book because you're
curious about things for which no words exist, and have a mild
interest in random Yorkshire villages with quirky names - then
you're in luck! The Yorkshire Meaning of Liff twins some of the
obscurely wonderful, often unheard of and wastefully under-used
place names of this glorious county, with the numerous experiences,
feelings, situations and objects which we all know but, for some
reason, have no words attributed to them. In no time at all you
could be waxing lyrical about your most recent denaby main;
empathising with friends who have also suffered a grimston, or
expressing a whiston acquired during a state of galphay...
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