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Ben Grossblatt Master the harsh, guttural language of Klingon with this hilarious and helpful sound guide! | David Bellos How do we really make ourselves understood to other people? This book shows how, from puns to poetry, news bulletins to the Bible, Asterix to Swedish films, translation is at... |
David Crystal Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient word ('loaf') to advanced ('twittersphere') and spanning the indispensable words that shape our tongue ('and', 'what') to the more fanciful... | Mark Forsyth The Horologicon - which means 'a book of things appropriate to each hour - follows a day in the life of unusual, beautiful and forgotten English words. |
Mark Forsyth The massive Christmas 2011 bestseller and Radio 4 Book of the Week | Andrew Delahunty; Sheila Dignen An absorbing dictionary that clearly explains the meanings of references and allusions that are likely to be encountered in modern English. Drawing on the resources of the Oxford English Corpus... |
J. P. Davidson; Stephen Fry The accompanying book to Stephen Fry's engrossing and entertaining TV guide to the wonder of language. | Andrew Delahunty This updated and revised edition is the authoritative guide to foreign words and phrases used in contemporary British and American English. Drawn from over 40 languages, the 6,000 entries detail... |
David Crystal Why is there an 'h' in ghost? William Caxton, inventor of the printing press and his Flemish employees are to blame: without a dictionary or style guide to hand in... | John Gray Few learn Latin in school and young lawyers with minimal knowledge of the language experience difficulty as they continue to meet it, particularly in old reported cases, academic articles and... |
Mark Forsyth What is the actual connection between disgruntled and gruntled? What links church organs to organised crime, California to the Caliphate? This title deals with the secret labyrinth that lurks beneath... Delivery: To home, business or free to our stores. Click for more info. | £15.00 | £10.50 | 30% |  Despatched in 1 business day. |   Add to Basket | Click & Collect:Order now to collect from 11am today. In stock items only. Click for more info. | £15.00 | £12.75 | 15% |  Currently out of stock in all stores. | Stores - out of stock | New & Used:Our marketplace sellers will deliver to your chosen address. Click for more info. | | | | Currently unavailable | Currently unavailable |
| Guy Deutscher Generalisations about language and culture are at best amusing and meaningless, but is there anything sensible left to be said about the relation between language, culture and thought? This book... |
David Bellos People speak different languages, and always have. We all use translation to cope with the diversity of languages. This title ranges across the whole of human experience, from foreign films... Delivery:To home, business or free to our stores. Click for more info. | £20.00 | £14.60 | 27% | Despatched in 1 business day. | Add to Basket | Click & Collect:Order now to collect from 11am today. In stock items only. Click for more info. | £20.00 | £17.00 | 15% | Currently out of stock in all stores. | Stores - out of stock | New & Used:Our marketplace sellers will deliver to your chosen address. Click for more info. | | | | Currently unavailable | Currently unavailable |
| David Crystal The King James Bible has contributed more to English than any other source. In this enlightening book David Crystal asks why. He looks at how its words have been given... |
Albert Jack Collects over 500 of the funniest-sounding and delightful words in the English language, and traces them back to their often puzzling origins. While brushing up on your gibberish or gobbledygook... Delivery:To home, business or free to our stores. Click for more info. | £12.99 | £9.09 | 30% | Despatched in 1 business day. | Add to Basket | Click & Collect:Order now to collect from 11am today. In stock items only. Click for more info. | £12.99 | £11.04 | 15% | Currently out of stock in all stores. | Stores - out of stock | New & Used:Our marketplace sellers will deliver to your chosen address. Click for more info. | | | | Currently unavailable | Currently unavailable |
| Russ Willey The legends, lore, locals, localities and lingo of London |