More publicity for 'Haggard Hawks'

Paul Anthony Jones’s fascinating book of etymology, Haggard Hawks and Paltry Poltroons, continues to generate attention. Paul has written a new piece for The Guardian, which was published at the weekend.

From ‘A’ to ‘ampersand’, English is a wonderfully curious language

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Paul Jones

Paul Jones

Paul Anthony Jones was born in South Shields in 1983. Graduating with a Masters degree in English from the University of Newcastle in 2009, his first book The British Isles: A Trivia Gazetteer (2012) was inspired by a university study into the origins of English place names. This was quickly foll...More about Paul Jones