"An early highlight of this fully revised millennium edition of Brewer's is Terry Pratchett's short, sweetly ironic preface. It's entirely appropriate, given Brewer's has been the bread-and-butter of curious, self-educated working men and women for 130 years, and that this decade's great demotic writer should be invited to watch the dust settle on yet another deposit of curious knowledge. ("It's an education in itself, seeing [the Fab Fo ..."
"Each of these reference works contains a miscellany of knowledge from history, religion, folklore, philosophy, literature and the sciences. They look at the origin and meanings of words, proper names and phrases."