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An Apple A Day: Old-Fashioned Proverbs and Why They Still Work
Caroline TaggartCurrent price €10.43Original price €11.99Does absence really make the heart grow fonder?Can beggars be choosers?Is it always better late than never?Proverbs are short, well-known, pithy sa...
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Spellbound: Untangling English Spelling
Robbins BurlingCurrent price €76.26Original price €93.00Spellbound considers the history of English spelling and provides suggestions for modern day reform of its irregularities.The first half of the boo...
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Latin Inscriptions
Dirk BoomsCurrent price €14.78Original price €16.99Latin inscriptions can appear daunting a jumble of letters without any structure or meaning. However, once you know how, most are easy to read as ...
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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 Art Of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building
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The Horologicon: A Day''s Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language
Mark ForsythCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50FROM 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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The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting
Anne TrubekCurrent price €19.13Original price €21.99Persuasively argues that our fixation with writing by hand is driven more by emotion than evidence, as it is perceived to be inextricably linked to...
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Mothballs and Elbow Grease
National TrustCurrent price €9.83Original price €11.99A charming, attractively illustrated collection of household sayings with their origins and meanings.Mothballs and Elbow Grease explores the impact...
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Garner''s Dictionary of Legal Usage
Bryan GarnerCurrent price €53.51Original price €61.50This new edition of Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage marshals and analyses the modern legal vocabulary more thoroughly than any other contemporar...
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The Atlas of Unusual Languages: An exploration of language, people and geography
Collins BooksCurrent price €17.39Original 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 €20.00Original price €22.99Maybe 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 €14.78Original 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 €14.78Original 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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Don''t Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language
David ShariatmadariCurrent price €22.61Original price €25.99Think you know language? Think again. There are languages that change when your mother-in-law is present. The language you speak could make you mo...
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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 €23.93Original price €27.50What 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
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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 €17.39Original 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 €14.78Original 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 €81.77Original 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
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F**k: An Irreverent History of the F-Word
Rufus LodgeCurrent price €11.61Original price €13.99An amusing, informative, controversial and utterly irreverent history of the worlds favourite word. F, U, C and K four letters that can ...
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Deleting ''Elect'' in the Bible: A Reasonable Historical Case for Removal of the Word ''Elect'' in the English Bible
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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% -
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Other Wordly: words both strange and lovely from around the world
Yee-Lum MakCurrent price €15.23Original 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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