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Speaking in Tongues: Curious Expressions from Around the World
Ella Frances SandersCurrent price €15.36Original 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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El español de Cataluña en los medios de comunicación
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New Rhetorics for Contemporary Legal Discourse
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Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words
Ella Frances SandersCurrent price €16.10Original 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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Through the Language Glass: Why The World Looks Different In Other Languages
Guy DeutscherCurrent price €15.23Original price €17.50Guy Deutscher is that rare beast, an academic who talks good sense about linguistics... he argues in a playful and provocative way, that our mother...
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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: The Classic First Edition
H. W. FowlerCurrent price €15.23Original 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 €14.78Original 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 €14.53Original 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 €16.10Original price €18.50The 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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Dictionary of Cape Breton English
Richard P. MacKinnonCurrent price €40.01Original price €45.99Biff and whiff, baker's fog and lu'sknikn, pie social and milling frolic - these are just a few examples of the distinctive language of Cape Breton...
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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% -
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The Last Lingua Franca: The Rise and Fall of World Languages
Nicholas OstlerCurrent price €15.23Original price €17.50A revelatory and exhilarating tour de force, Nicholas Ostler's The Last Lingua Franca: The Rise and Fall of World Languages explores the rise of a ...
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The Wonderful World of Words
Mitchell SymonsCurrent price €12.17Original price €13.99Did you know that 'Almost' is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order? Or that 'Stewardesses' is the lo...
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Salty Dog Talk: The Nautical Origins of Everyday Expressions
Bill BeavisCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Most of us never realise how many words and expressions used in everyday English have a fascinating nautical origin. This charming pocketbook expla...
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The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu
Dan JurafskyCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50Ketchup began as a fermented fish sauce from Chinas Fujian province: ke for fermented fish, tchup for sauce. The British were the first to add toma...
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How English Became English: A short history of a global language
Simon HorobinCurrent price €15.65Original price €17.99The English Language is spoken by more than a billion people throughout the world. But where did English come from? And how has it evolved into the...
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