Language: History & General Works
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A Barrel of Monkeys: A Compendium of Collective Nouns for Animals
Bodleian LibraryCurrent price €16.14Original price €16.99Were all familiar with a flock of sheep but what are the collective nouns for racehorses, pigs, zebras or giraffes? Drawing on a range of sources, ...
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Just My Typo: From ''sinning with the choir'' to ''the large hardon collider''
Drummond MoirCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99From the sublime to the ridiculous, Just My Typo is a hilarious collection of typographical errors, slips of the pen and embarrassing misprints whi...
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The Story of English: How the English language conquered the world
Philip GoodenCurrent price €17.58Original price €18.50Born as a Germanic tongue with the arrival in Britain of the Anglo-Saxons in the early medieval period, heavily influenced by Norman French from th...
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I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World
James GearyCurrent price €16.14Original price €16.99It is the East, and Juliet is the sun! This is one of Shakespeare's most famous lines and one of the most well-known metaphors in literature. But m...
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How to Talk Like a Local: A National Phrasebook from the author of Word Perfect
Susie DentCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50'Susie Dent is a national treasure' RICHARD OSMAN'Susie Dent is a one-off. She breathes life and fun into words and language' PAM AYRES____________...
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Modern Manglish
Alan MoirCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99''It''s dog eat dog in this rat race.'' ''We''ll burn that bridge when we come to it.'' ''I hope to come first or second, or at least win it.'' T...
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The Writing on the Wall: Reading''s Latin Inscriptions
Peter KruschwitzCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50What are monuments for? and why are the inscriptions so often in Latin? What on earth is the point of communicating in a language so few understand...
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Language Ungoverned: Indonesia''s Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 19111949
Tom G. HoogervorstCurrent price €33.92Original price €38.99By exploring a rich array of Malay texts from novels and newspapers to poems and plays, Tom G. Hoogervorst's Language Ungoverned examines how the M...
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Latin: Story of a World Language
Jurgen LeonhardtCurrent price €24.69Original price €25.99The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries after Romes fall, Latin survives today primarily in classroom...
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Speaking in Tongues: Curious Expressions from Around the World
Ella Frances SandersCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Ever feel like you are pedalling in the choucroute? Been caught with your beard in the mailbox again? Or maybe you just wish everyone would stop ir...
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New Rhetorics for Contemporary Legal Discourse
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €25.18Original price €26.50Are the general and the particular separated in legal rhetorics? What is the function of singular events, facts, names in legal argumentation and w...
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Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words
Ella Frances SandersCurrent price €17.58Original price €18.50Did you know that the Japanese have a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Or, that theres a Swedish word that mea...
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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: The Classic First Edition
H. W. FowlerCurrent price €16.63Original price €17.50'What grammarians say should be has perhaps less influence on what shall be than even the more modest of them realize ...' No book had more influ...
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A Conspiracy of Ravens: A Compendium of Collective Nouns for Birds
Bodleian LibraryCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99A murder of crows, a charm of goldfinches, an ostentation of peacocks: collective nouns for British birds have existed since at least the mid fifte...
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Straight From The Fridge Dad: New Edition
Max DecharneCurrent price €22.13Original price €26.99Containing thousands of examples of hipster slang drawn from pulp novels, classic noir and exploitation films, blues, country and rock''n''roll lyr...
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That''s Not English: Britishisms, Americanisms and What Our English Says About Us
Erin MooreCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50In this brilliant transatlantic survival guide, Erin Moore examines the key differences between the British and the Americans through their languag...
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The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar
Bas AartsCurrent price €18.04Original price €18.99The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar is a straightforward and accessible A-Z guide to the diverse and often complex terminology of English gram...
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Jabulani means rejoice: A dictionary of South African names
Phumzile Simelane KalumbaCurrent price €41.27Original price €47.99Current price €41.27Original price €47.99Save 14%