Language: History & General Works
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The Atlas of Unusual Languages: An exploration of language, people and geography
Collins BooksCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99The ideal gift for anyone interested in language, geography and people. We communicate through the spoken and written word and language h...
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Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don''t RhymeAnd Other Oddities of the English Language
Arika OkrentCurrent price €22.79Original price €23.99Maybe you've been speaking English all your life, or maybe you learned it later on. But whether you use it just well enough to get your daily busin...
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The Dawn of Language: The story of how we came to talk
Sverker JohanssonCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50A model of popular-science writing STEVEN POOLEI love a book that teaches me things I didn't know while provoking in me thoughts I never had before...
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Languages Are Good for Us
Sophie HardachCurrent price €16.14Original price €16.99This is a book about languages and the people who love them. Sophie Hardach is here to guide us through the strange and wonderful ways that human...
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Runes
Martin FindellCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99From late antiquity through to the early middle ages, people across north-western Europe were inscribing runes on a range of different objects. Onc...
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What the Dickens?!: Distinctly Dickensian Words and How to Use Them
Bryan KozlowskiCurrent price €15.65Original price €17.99GRAB A BUMPER, FORGET YOUR FANTEEGS, AND ROAM AT A FOOT-PACE THROUGH THE TWISTY ALLEYWAYS OF THE VICTORIAN VERNACULAR!What larks! Dive into the wor...
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Complete Aramaic: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding Aramaic, with Original Texts
Eric ReymondCurrent price €40.59Original price €49.50Designed for complete beginners, and tested with real learners, Complete Aramaic offers a bridge from the textbook to the real world, enabling you ...
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How Dead Languages Work
Coulter H. GeorgeCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99What could Greek poets or Roman historians say in their own language that would be lost in translation? After all, different languages have differe...
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Place Names of Launceston: Henwyn Tyller Lannstevan
Kesva An Taves KernewekCurrent price €8.54Original price €8.99Current price €8.54Original price €8.99Save 5% -
The Stories of Slang: Language at its most human
Jonathon GreenCurrent price €13.93Original price €16.99''If you''re up for an adventure through the back alleys of English, The Stories of Slang will not disappoint.'' Kory Stamper, Times Literary Suppl...
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A Little Book of Latin for Gardeners
Peter ParkerCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99How did the delphinium get its name? Which parts of the body lend their names to auriculas and orchids? Who are the gentian, lobelia and heuchera n...
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Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language
Emma ByrneCurrent price €23.06Original price €26.50Were often told that swearing is outrageous or even offensive, that its a sign of a stunted vocabulary or a limited intellect. Dictionaries have tr...
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The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing
Ewan ClaytonCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99The Golden Thread is an enthralling and accessible history of the cultural miracle that is the written word. It is an invention that has been used ...
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Winning Arguments: What Works and Doesn''t Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the Classroom
Stanley FishCurrent price €16.14Original price €16.99Fish mines cultural touchstones from Milton to 'Married with Children' to explain how various types of arguments are structured and how that unders...
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Latin in Medieval Britain
Oxford University PressCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99Latin continued to be used across Europe long after the end of the Roman Empire. This collection considers key issues arising from the use of Latin...
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Texas Sayings & Folklore
Mavis P. KelseyCurrent price €21.31Original price €25.99On the eve of his 100th birthday, Dr Mavis P Kelsey shares a generous collection of sayings from his homeland. What began as an enjoyable hobby and...
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Ireland as Gaeilge: A User-Friendly Guide to the Irish Language
Olga BalaevaCurrent price €17.09Original price €18.99Current price €17.09Original price €18.99Save 10% -
Bloomers, Biros and Wellington Boots: How the Names Became the Words
Andrew ShollCurrent price €10.43Original price €11.99Revealing the history behind words from Hoover to Sandwich and Wellington Boots to the Biro, this guide to eponyms is full of surprises.What's in a...
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English to English: The A to Z of British-American Translations
Suzan St.MaurCurrent price €13.91Original price €15.99Current price €13.91Original price €15.99Save 13% -
Other Wordly: words both strange and lovely from around the world
Yee-Lum MakCurrent price €16.63Original price €17.50Discover words to surprise, delight and enamor. Learn terms for the sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees, for dancing awkwardly but wi...
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The Horologicon: A Day''s Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language
Mark ForsythCurrent price €15.23Original price €17.50FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE ETYMOLOGICON.'Reading The Horologicon in one sitting is very tempting' Roland White, ...
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Wenglish - The Dialect of the South Wales Valleys
Roger LewisCurrent price €17.58Original price €18.50Current price €17.58Original price €18.50Save 5% -
The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us
James W. PennebakerCurrent price €18.99Original price €19.99Current price €18.99Original price €19.99Save 5% -
How to be Good With Words
Don LePanCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99In recent decades the contested areas of English usage have grown both larger and more numerous. We may argue rather less frequently than was once ...
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The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics
John PollackCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99Current price €17.39Original price €19.99Save 13% -
Mark Forsyth''s Ternion Set: A beautiful box set containing The Etymologicon, The Horologicon and The Elements of Eloquence in hardback
Mark ForsythCurrent price €39.14Original price €44.99'Kudos should go to Mr Forsyth ... Clearly a man who knows his onions.' Daily Telegraph'Forsyth takes words and draws us into their, and our murky ...
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The Slang Dictionary - Etymological, Historical and Anecdotal - A New Edition - Revised and Corrected, With Many Additions.
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The Yield
Tara June WinchCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99WINNER OF THE MILES FRANKLIN AWARD 2020 An exquisitely written, heartbreaking and hopeful novel of culture, language, tradition, sufferin...
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The Yield
Tara June WinchCurrent price €13.59Original price €16.99WINNER OF THE MILES FRANKLIN AWARD 2020 An exquisitely written, heartbreaking and hopeful novel of culture, language, tradition, sufferi...
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The Yield
Tara June WinchCurrent price €14.80Original price €18.50WINNER OF THE MILES FRANKLIN AWARD 2020 An exquisitely written, heartbreaking and hopeful novel of culture, language, tradition, sufferi...
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Journal of Maltese Studies 28 - Essays on the Cantilena
Bernard Micallef€15.00For decades now, the Cantilena has inspired an unending exchange of critical, historical, linguistic and other scholarly views. This issue of the J...
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Let''s Talk: How English Conversation Works
David CrystalCurrent price €27.08Original price €28.50Banter, 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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Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €104.39Original price €119.99A pioneering collection of new research that explores categories, constructions, and change in the syntax of the English language. The volume, with...
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Language Error and Applied Linguistics
Ali AKbar KhansirCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99Current price €141.54Original price €148.99Save 5% -
Spoken Corpus Linguistics: From Monomodal to Multimodal
Koros Press LimitedCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99Current price €141.54Original price €148.99Save 5% -
Soldier and Sailor Words and Phrases
Edward FraserCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99This book was first published in 1925 and was intended to be a dictionary of first world war slang. In the 1920s, the war to end all wars was still...
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Book of New Zealand Words
Dianne BardsleyCurrent price €41.79Original price €43.99Elegant, erudite and utterly up to date, this book contains more than 1500 unique New Zealand words and expressions. From afakasi to zespri, the Bo...
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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 Story of Be: A Verb''s-Eye View of the English Language
David CrystalCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99It'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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The Singlish Controversy: Language, Culture and Identity in a Globalizing World
Lionel WeeCurrent price €102.59Original price €113.99Singlish is the colloquial variety of English spoken in Singapore. It has sparked much public debate, but so far the complex question of what Singl...
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The First English Dictionary of Slang 1699
B. E. GentCurrent price €15.19Original price €15.99Written originally for the education of the polite London classes in canting the language of thieves and ruffians should they be so unlucky as to...
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