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As They Say in Zanzibar: Proverbial Wisdom from around the World by David Crystal
35.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
Proverbs are fascinating in what they tell us about a culture's view of everyday life: whether it be the importance of animals or the significance of the weather, proverbial wisdom is a key factor in understanding different peoples and cultures. Here David Crystal, the world's leading commentator on lan ...Show more
Disappearing Dictionary by CRYSTAL, DAVID
25.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction: General
Wherever you go in the English-speaking world, there are linguistic riches from times past awaiting rediscovery. All you have to do is choose a location, find some old documents, and dig a little. In The Disappearing Dictionary, linguistics expert Professor David Crystal collects together delightful dia ...Show more
Disappearing Dictionary: A Treasury of Lost English Dialect Words by David Crystal
35.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
Wherever you go in the English-speaking world, there are linguistic riches from times past awaiting rediscovery. All you have to do is choose a location, find some old documents, and dig a little. In The Disappearing Dictionary, linguistics expert Professor David Crystal collects together delightful dia ...Show more
How Language Works by David Crystal
30.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
In this fascinating survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work, David Crystal answers every question you might ever have had about the nuts and bolts of language in his usual highly illuminating way. Along the way, we find out about eyebrow flashes, whistling languages, how par ...Show more
Making Sense: The Glamorous World of English Grammar by David Crystal
33.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
David Crystal explains grammar's rules and irregularities, shows how to navigate its snares and pitfalls, and explores its history and varieties. He gives practical guidance on how grammar may be used for different purposes and in different settings. He provides a series of insights into the stages by w ...Show more
Making a Point: The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation by David Crystal
25.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
This 'engaging history of punctuation' (Wall Street Journal) is not only the first history of its kind, but a complete guide on how to use English punctuation. Behind every punctuation mark lies a thousand stories. The punctuation of English, marked with occasional rationality, is founded on arbitrarine ...Show more
Making a Point: The Pernickity Story of English Punctuation by David Crystal
33.00 NZD
Category: History
Behind every punctuation mark lie a thousand stories. The punctuation of English, marked with occasional rationality, is founded on arbitrariness and littered with oddities. For a system of a few dozen marks it generates a disproportionate degree of uncertainty and passion, inspiring organisations like ...Show more
Spell It Out - The Story of English Spelling by David Crystal
37.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
This is an enlightening tour of English spelling that untangles 'stationery' from 'stationary' - and explains why the 'i before e except after c' rule is so misleading. Why is there an 'h' in ghost? William Caxton, inventor of the printing press and his Flemish employees are to blame: without a dictiona ...Show more
Spell It Out: The singular story of English spelling by David Crystal
28.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
This is a unique journey through English spelling, untangling the fascinating origins of its greatest eccentricities. Why is there an 'h' in ghost? William Caxton, inventor of the printing press and his Flemish employees are to blame: without a dictionary or style guide to hand in fifteenth century Brug ...Show more
Story of English in 100 Words by David Crystal
29.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
This title is an eye-opening tour of the English language through the ages. Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient word ('loaf') to cutting edge ('twittersphere') and spanning the indispensable words that shape our tongue ('and', 'what') to the more fanciful ('fopdood ...Show more
The Fight for English - How language pundits ate, shot, and left by David Crystal
30.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
Lynne Truss's 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' injected new life into the long-standing arguments over rights and wrongs in English usage. Now David Crystal brings together his own distinctive style and unique expertise to provide the first thorough-going assessment of the ongoing debate. With a lively, humoro ...Show more
The Stories of English by David Crystal
30.00 NZD
Category: History
When and why did 'thou' disappear from Standard English? Would a Victorian Cockney have said 'observation' or 'hobservation'? Was Jane Austen making a mistake when she wrote 'Jenny and James are walked to Charmonth this afternoon'? This superbly well-informed - and also wonderfully entertaining - histor ...Show more
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