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Superpiss, Meltykiss, Spankers and Muff

Gordon Thorburn author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group

Published:22nd Nov '12

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

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Brand names, funny signs and other murders of English as she is spoke.

Superpiss used to be a brand of windscreen washer fluid in Finland but they've changed the name for some reason. Bra milk has gone the same way.

Luckily, there is still an Italian detergent called BumBum, a Ghanaian pepper sauce called Shitto, Jamaicans can buy Mannish Water Ram Goat Soup, those horrible Danish salt-liquorice pastilles are Spunk brand, the Swedes eat marshmallows called Skum, you can keep your feet dry in China with a Sex Shoes Set and refresh after a jog in Japan with a glass of Sweat.

This hilarious book contains hundreds of examples from foreign parts of product names, signs and advertising puffery that make English speakers laugh immoderately, plus a few mistakes that slipped through at home.

It's all real. None of it has been invented. In Egypt, you really can buy German Winter Hats for Diabetics.

ISBN: 9781780339016

Dimensions: 140mm x 200mm x 17mm

Weight: 400g

192 pages