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The Meaning of Liff
''The Meaning of Liff'' (UK Edition: ISBN 0-330-28121-6, US Edition: ISBN 0-517-55347-3) is a humorous dictionary of toponymy and etymology, written by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd, published in the United Kingdom in 1983 and the United States in 1984.
==Content==
The book is a "dictionary of things that there aren't any words for yet".〔Gartner, Michael (15 March 1987). (Words ), ''Newsday''〕 Rather than inventing new words, Adams and Lloyd picked a number of existing place-names and assigned interesting meanings to them; meanings that can be regarded as on the verge of social existence and are ready to become recognisable entities.
All the words listed are toponyms and describe common feelings and objects for which there is no current English word. Examples are ''Shoeburyness'' ("The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat that is still warm from somebody else's bottom") and ''Plymouth'' ("To relate an amusing story to someone without remembering that it was they who told it to you in the first place").
The book cover usually bears the tagline "This book will change your life", either as part of its cover or as an adhesive label. ''Liff'' (a village near Dundee in Scotland) 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'."
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