Glad to have this. I can understand the complaints of it being too broad to go into great detail and too much of a big list to be hugely entertaining but it's a great starting point for looking into any of the "tribes" in question because the notes of where their terminology originates provides slices of history, geography and anthropology as you go. ( )

Fun and interesting as usual from Susie. Perhaps a bit on the skim-lightly-over-the-surface side; and certainly easier to read dipping-in-and-out style than attempting to plough through cover to cover. ( )

I don’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member. – Groucho Marx.

Becoming a member of a club has benefits, exclusive access to people and ideas, acknowledgement of a certain point in your life. With that though comes an inside knowledge too. This is also replicated with professions too, that if you become a cabbie, or a barista or undertaker that you learn the tricks of the trade and most importantly the language too.

In this exploration of the language of tribes, Dent has spent hours interviewing people from a complete variety of professions, from the armed forces and police, butchers, bankers, cabin crew and even some of the most secretive the masons and the spooks. But there are others too, so we will learn how the meaning of the words that skateboarders use, how to sound like you know what you are talking about when you’re at a rave, or if you prefer your dancing to be a little more leisurely the terms that you will need to use when Morris Dancing.

In this book, Dent uncovers all sorts of words and phrases that you wouldn’t normally hear in day to day life and if you did hear them, you wouldn’t get the meaning. There are some great insults in here too, so if you want to know what a camper, funt or a who an organ donor is, then you need to read this book. ( )

This book is delightful, lifting the lid on the words used in everyday life by a great many professions, pastimes and in general conversation. I very much hope to see a follow up book. ( )