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Route 58". FirstGroup. 2012. Archived from the original on 21 December 2010 . Retrieved 11 September 2012. . Dictionaries are not known for their comic timing. A true logophile might point to some subversive entries that can raise a smile – for example, editions of The Chambers Dictionary include the entry “ éclair, n. – a cake, long in shape but short in duration” – but these are humorous precisely because they are incongruous. As compendiums of what is “right and proper” when it comes to words, dictionaries have an air of gravitas. And, of course, this makes them ripe for parody. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Fast-forward 150 years, and one encounters a more caustic version of self-deprecation: “Dictionary, n. – a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.” So runs a characteristically arch definition from Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary (1911). Bierce pairs the recognisable dictionary format with caustic rhetorical flourishes to skewer social conventions (see also: “litigation, n. – a machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage”). Annual Report 2005" (PDF). Brunel University. 2005. p.15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 September 2020 . Retrieved 5 May 2011. . ODNB: Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan: "Williams, Peggy Eileen [Margiad Evans] (1909–1958)" Retrieved 1 July 2010, pay-walled. Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher (1992). The London Encyclopaedia (reprinted.). Macmillan. p.753. Uxbridge, Urban District, with list of casualties". Commonwealth War Graves Commission date accessed=21 February 2019.propaganda: A gentlemanly goose. (proper- gander) or to look at something very carefully (proper-gander, where gander is slang for looking) Hillingdon Sports and Leisure Complex". London Borough of Hillingdon. 9 March 2010. Archived from the original on 8 June 2011 . Retrieved 4 April 2011. Buses from Uxbridge" (PDF). Transport for London. 24 July 2012. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 August 2012 . Retrieved 11 September 2012. Europe: United Kingdom". PAREXEL International. 2012. Archived from the original on 1 November 2012 . Retrieved 20 November 2012. Another brilliant riff on the idea of the dictionary as law is Milorad Pavic’s slow-burning but compelling comedy Dictionary of the Khazars (1984). It is structured as three short, often contradictory encyclopedias, whose vying accounts of events the reader is made to compare. When it comes to trusting authority, the novel implies, you must keep your wits about you. It’s a send-up of totalitarian censorship: by presenting “factual accounts” from three different perspectives, Khazars’ dictionary explodes claims that any single, uncontested, authoritative version of events is possible.
St Mary's Catholic Primary School". St Mary's Catholic Primary School. 2012 . Retrieved 11 September 2012. . Uxbridge North's largest sector of employment, according to the 2001 and 2011 censuses, was management. [56] Uxbridge was in the first main wave of the new, secular system of civil parishes, gaining a council and territory in 1866, [49] and an Urban District under the Local Government Act 1894. [50] In 1955 the council successfully petitioned for a charter of incorporation and became a municipal borough. This stood for ten years, followed by incorporation into the new system of London Boroughs, as the London Borough of Hillingdon. [51] Archived copy of data.london.gov.uk analysed data". Archived from the original on 22 February 2014 . Retrieved 9 June 2014.
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Archaeologists found Bronze Age remains (before 700 BC) and medieval remains during the construction of The Chimes shopping centre; two miles (3.2km) away at Denham, Upper Paleolithic remains have been found. Uxbridge is not mentioned in the Domesday Book of the 11th century, but a hundred years later St Margaret's Church, was built. The town appears in records from 1107 as "Woxbrigge", and became part of the Elthorne Hundred with other settlements in the area. [11] Early developments [ edit ] The Crown & Treaty public house
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