Author: David Crystal
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A Date with Language: Fascinating Facts, Events and Stories for Every Day of the Year
David CrystalCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50In this ingenious and diverse collection of 366 stories, events and facts about language, David Crystal presents a selection of insights from liter...
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That''s the Ticket for Soup!: Victorian Views on Vocabulary as Told in the Pages of ''Punch''
David CrystalCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99The vocabulary of past times, no longer used in English, is always fascinating, especially when we see how it was pilloried by the satirists of the...
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We Are Not Amused: Victorian Views on Pronunciation as Told in the Pages of Punch
David CrystalCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50Pronunciation governs our regional and social identity more powerfully than any other aspect of spoken language. No wonder, then, that it has attra...
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Words in Time and Place: Exploring Language Through the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary
David CrystalCurrent price €20.87Original price €23.99Did you know that the English language has over 150 words for the adjective 'drunk' developed over 1,000 years? Be prepared to learn words you have...
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You Say Potato: The Story of English Accents
Ben CrystalCurrent price €14.78Original price €16.99Some people say scohn, while others say schown.He says bath, while she says bahth.You say potayto. I say potahtoAnd--wait a second, no one says pot...
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Wordsmiths and Warriors: The English-Language Tourist''s Guide to Britain
David CrystalCurrent price €16.14Original price €18.99Wordsmiths and Warriors explores the heritage of English through the places in Britain that shaped it. It unites the warriors, whose invasions tran...
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The Gift of the Gab: How Eloquence Works
David CrystalCurrent price €15.65Original price €17.99A many-faceted exploration of spoken eloquence: how it works, how it has evolved, and how to tap its remarkable power We all know eloquence when we...
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The Story of Be: A Verb''s-Eye View of the English Language
David CrystalCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50It's the most simple, unassuming, innocent-looking verb: 'to be'. Yet it is jam-packed with more different meanings, forms, and uses than any other...
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Let''s Talk: How English Conversation Works
David CrystalCurrent price €23.06Original price €26.50Banter, chit-chat, gossip, natter, tete-a-tete: these are just a few of the terms for the varied ways in which we interact with one another through...
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Gift of The Gab
David Crystal€23.60A many-faceted exploration of spoken eloquence: how it works, how it has evolved, and how to tap its remarkable power We all know eloquence whe...
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Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary
Ben CrystalCurrent price €17.19Original price €19.99Winner of Best Book, Publication, or Recording prize at the Falstaff Awards 2015 Shortlisted for the 2016 SLA Information Book Award The Oxford Il...
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