Boulting's Velosaurus: A Linguistic Tour de France

Boulting's Velosaurus: A Linguistic Tour de France image
ISBN-10:

0224100645

ISBN-13:

9780224100649

Author(s): Boulting, Ned
Edition: UK ed.
Released: Feb 01, 2018
Publisher: Yellow Jersey
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
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Description:

The language of cycling is vibrant, sophisticated, often impenetrable and extremely French. Find yourself confused, nodding along when a rouleur relates how le biscuit was effrité (crumbled)? How today they’re feeling Angers (past caring)? Fear no more, for Boulting's Velosaurus will illuminate, enlighten and, frankly, mislead. Tour de France commentator and cycling writer Ned Boulting provides the ultimate lexicon of nonsense terminology, featuring essential vocabulary like Alpe (an Alp), panache (riding with doomed flamboyance, conscious of the need to renew one’s contract), moutarde (any race that ends, begins or passes through the city of Dijon) and maillot (a jumper, obviously), Boulting’s Velosaurus is the ideal companion to all things peloton for linguistically-challenged fans of non-automotive two-wheeled sport.













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