Cocktails & Conversation with Ben Yagoda, author of Gobsmacked! The British Invasion of American English., will take place on December 11th at Alvin & Friends Restaurant (14 Memorial Highway, New Rochelle) from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. Tickets cost $60 and include delicious nibbles and two drinks; proceeds benefit the non-profit NRPL Foundation.
Tickets can be purchased here.
Tickets are also available by mail with a check payable to NRPLF sent to New Rochelle Public Library Foundation, 1 Library Plaza, New Rochelle, NY 10801.
Copies of Yagoda’s book will be available for sale and signing by J. Anderson’s Bookstore (96 Chatsworth Avenue, Larchmont). “Gobsmacked” can be pre-ordered here.
Ben Yagoda has published more than a dozen books (including Will Rogers: A Biography) and his blog, Not One-Off Britishisms, has been visited more than 3 million times. Since 2011, Yagoda has dutifully documented and collected hundreds of British imports on his blog, and in his new book Yagoda splits them up into distinct categories (military slang, food and drink, sports, insults, and other bits and bobs), provides some historical and cultural context for their use, and denotes their level of penetration into American English at the end of each entry. The result is an awfully clever deconstruction of the English language, full stop.
Event Info
December 11, 2024
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Alvin & Friends Restaurant
14 Memorial Highway
New Rochelle, NY 10801