Bird Editions - The Polar Tombola: A Book of Banished Words. Edited by Nancy Campbell.

The Polar Tombola: A Book of Banished Words. Edited by Nancy Campbell. [With a Foreword by Sarah Bodman.] Oblong 8vo, 16cm, [120] pages, Bird Editions, Northumberland, 2017.

Typesetting and literary design by Bracketpress. Illustrated throughout with reproductions of banished words; grey semi-stiff wrappers, titled in black. New copy.

SIGNED BY THE EDITOR. An entertainment. 'If you banished a word from your language what would it be? The question was posed at four variously bookish events and, as Raymond Queneau might have said - if you're not in, you're out. Choices include NO, CERULEAN, WAR, FEMMA, QUINQUAGEN (some people have a verbal tic with that one), YUMMY. Why isn't IRREGARDLESS in the list? Nobody asked me, that's why.