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A Winter Dictionary: A Collection of Words for the Festive Season
Paul Anthony JonesCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99As the nights draw in and the cold descends, the winter world emerges - and with it an incredible array of words that superbly capture the season. ...
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Why Is This a Question?: Everything About the Origins and Oddities of Language You Never Thought to Ask
Paul Anthony JonesCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50'As entertaining as it is engrossing' John Banville 'Enlightening, delightful' Arthur der Weduwen, author of The Library Why dont eleven and tw...
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The Cabinet of Calm: Soothing Words for Troubled Times
Paul Anthony JonesCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99Sometimes we all need a little reminder that it''s going to be okay... Open The Cabinet of Calm to discover a comforting word that''s equal to your...
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Why Is This a Question?: Everything About the Origins and Oddities of Language You Never Thought to Ask
Paul Anthony JonesCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99'As entertaining as it is engrossing' John Banville 'Enlightening, delightful' Arthur der Weduwen, author of The Library Why dont eleven and tw...
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Around the World in 80 Words: A Journey Through the English Language
Paul Anthony JonesCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99From Monte Carlo to Shanghai, Bikini to Samarra, Around the World in 80 Words is a whimsical voyage through the far-flung reaches of the English la...
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The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities: A Yearbook of Forgotten Words
Paul Anthony JonesCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99A whole year's worth of linguistic curiosities, just waiting to be discovered.; Within these pages you might leap back in time, learn about linguis...
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Word Drops: A Sprinkling of Linguistic Curiosities
Paul Anthony JonesCurrent price €15.29Original price €17.99If you're logofascinated, you are literally spellbound by language.This surprising compendium of 1,000 facts about words, language and etymology is...
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The Accidental Dictionary: The Remarkable Twists and Turns of English Words
Paul Anthony JonesCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50How well do you know your words?Buxom used to mean obedientA cloud was a rockRaunchy originally meant dirtyBrimming with hidden histories and tanta...
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Word Drops: A Sprinkling of Linguistic Curiosities
Paul Anthony JonesCurrent price €12.44Original price €14.99If you''re logofascinated, you are literally spellbound by language.This surprising compendium of 1,000 facts about words, language and etymology i...
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The Accidental Dictionary: The Remarkable Twists and Turns of English Words
Paul Anthony JonesCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99How well do you know your words?; Buxom used to mean obedient; A cloud was a rock; Raunchy originally meant dirty; Brimming with hidden histories a...
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The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities: A Yearbook of Forgotten Words
Paul Anthony JonesCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99The ultimate gift for wordsmiths and lovers of language: a word for every day of the year; Open the Cabinet to leap back in time, learn about lingu...
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Jedburgh Justice and Kentish Fire: The Origins of English in Ten Phrases and Expressions
Paul Anthony JonesCurrent price €16.66Original price €19.60Did you know that Jedburgh Justice is `executing someone first, then giving them a trial''? Or that Kentish Fire is `applauding sarcastically to si...
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