 Front cover of the US hardcover edition of The Meaning of Liff, 1984.
 Front cover of the US hardcover edition of The Deeper Meaning of Liff, 1990. The Meaning of Liff (UK Edition: ISBN 0-330-28121-6, US Edition: ISBN 0-517-55347-3) is a humorous dictionary written by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd, published in Britain in 1983, and first published in the USA in 1984. A revised and expanded edition of the original book, with about twice as many definitions, was more broadly published in 1990 as The Deeper Meaning of Liff (UK Edition: ISBN 0-330-31606-0, US Edition: ISBN 0-517-58597-9), though the original remains in print. Some of the new words in Deeper had previously appeared in a Liff piece by Adams, Lloyd and Stephen Fry in The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book (1986). The main differences between the two editions (for either version of the book) are simply those of American English vs. British English spellings. Image File history File links Scan of the front of the dust jacket of the hardcover American first edition, first printing (1984) of The Meaning of Liff. ...
Image File history File links Scan of the front of the dust jacket of the hardcover American first edition, first printing (1984) of The Meaning of Liff. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (440x650, 67 KB)Scan of the front of the dust jacket of the hardcover American first edition, first printing (1990) of The Deeper Meaning of Liff. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (440x650, 67 KB)Scan of the front of the dust jacket of the hardcover American first edition, first printing (1990) of The Deeper Meaning of Liff. ...
A dictionary is a list of words with their definitions, a list of characters with their glyphs, or a list of words with corresponding words in other languages. ...
Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was a British author, comic radio dramatist, and amateur musician. ...
John Lloyd (born 1951 in Dover, England; birth name: John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd), British comedy writer and producer. ...
1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
This article is about the year. ...
Layered Image File Format (LIFF) is a file format used in the Openlab suite for microscope image processing. ...
Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, author, actor and filmmaker. ...
The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book was a fundraising book issued on behalf of Comic Relief in 1986. ...
1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
It is a "dictionary of things that there aren't any words for yet"; all the words listed are place names, and describe common feelings and objects for which there is no current English word. For example: To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
- Shoeburyness (abs.n.)
- The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom.
and Location within the British Isles Shoeburyness is a town in southeast Essex, England, situated at the mouth of the river Thames. ...
- Abinger (abs.n.)
- One who washes up everything except the frying pan, the cheese grater and the saucepan which the chocolate sauce has been made in.
It should be noted that the cover of the book usually bears the tagline "This book will change your life!", either as an integral part of its cover or as an adhesive label. Liff is then defined in the book as "A book, the contents of which are totally belied by its cover. For instance, any book the dust jacket of which bears the words. 'This book will change your life'." Abinger is a civil parish in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England. ...
According to Adams' account in The Salmon of Doubt, the Meaning of Liff grew out of an old school game, and started when he and Lloyd were on holiday together. The book is named after the town of Liff in Scotland. The front cover of the UK first hardcover edition of The Salmon of Doubt. ...
Winding Road near Liff, a painting by John Stoa [1] Liff is a small hamlet northwest of Dundee in Scotland. ...
Motto: (Latin for No one provokes me with impunity)1 Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official language(s) English, Gaelic, Scots 2 Government Constitutional monarchy - Queen Queen Elizabeth II - Prime Minister of the UK Tony Blair MP - First Minister Jack McConnell MSP Unification - by Kenneth I...
See also A sniglet is defined as a word that should be in the dictionary, but isnt. While Rich Hall invented the word sniglet itself, sniglets are actually a long-running popular joke in which people make up their own humorous words to describe things or concepts that have no official...
// Placename Origins By Continent Africa The ancient Romans used the name Africa terra --- land of the Afri (plural, or Afer singular) --- for the northern part of the continent, corresponding to modern-day Tunisia. ...
The study of place names is called toponymy; for a more detailed examination of this subject in relation to British place names, please refer to British toponymy. ...
The Devils Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce offers an interesting reinterpretation of the English language in which cant and political double-talk were neatly lampooned. ...
External links - A community liff effort
- Download the Deeper Meaning of Liff — PC screensaver
- Full list of words in The Meaning of Liff
- Random meaning of Liff
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