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By Hook or by Crook : A Journey In Search of English by David Crystal
$27.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
A delightfully discursive, Bill Bryson-esque and personal journey through the groves and the thickets of the English language, by our foremost scholar of the history and structure of the English language. David Crystal has been described (by the Times Higher Education Supplement) as a sort of 'latter d ...Show more
Disappearing Dictionary by CRYSTAL, DAVID
$24.99 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
Disappearing Dictionary: A Treasury of Lost English Dialect Words by David Crystal
$34.99 NZD
Category: Literature
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
The Story of English in 100 Words by David Crystal (University College of North Wales Bangor University University College of North Wales, Bangor University College of North Wales, Bangor University of Wales University College of North Wales, Bangor University of Wales University of Wales)
$27.99 NZD
Category: Literature
In this entertaining history world's most ubiquitous language, linguistics expert David Crystal draws on one hundred words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences and events that have helped to shape our vernacular since the word "roe" was written down on the bone ankle of a roe dee ...Show more
The Story of English in One Hundred Words by David Crystal
$36.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This title offers an eye-opening tour of the English language through the ages from the Britain's leading linguistics expert. In this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, linguistic expert, David Crystal, draws on words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences ...Show more
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