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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 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 4pm 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 |
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Charles Barber; Joan Beal; Philip Shaw This bestselling text by Charles Barber recounts the history of the English language from its ancestry to the present day. | Solodow, Joseph B.; Joseph Solodow tells the story of how Latin developed into modern French, Spanish, and Italian, and also deeply affected English. Delivery:To home, business or free to our stores. Click for more info. | | | | Available through Foyles Online Marketplace only | Currently out of stock | Click & Collect:Order now to collect from 4pm today. In stock items only. Click for more info. | | | | 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. | From | £13.60 | | In stock at one or more sellers. | Buy - Select Seller |
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| Anderwald, Lieselotte; This 2009 book argues that, contrary to popular opinion, dialects do have a grammar, and that 'non standard' language often makes more sense. |
Richard Dury; Maurizio Gotti; Marina... The papers collected in this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). Alongside studies of... | Maciej Baranowski Presents an examination of the linguistic patterns of the residents of Charleston, South Carolina. This study traces the retreat of the traditional features with a sample of one hundred speakers... |
Miguel Angel Esparza Tores; ... The Spanish humanist Antonio de Nebrija (1444-1522) is the author of an impressive body of scientific work which comprises a broad spectrum of humanistic knowledge.... | Eric Partridge; Janet Whitcut The 3rd edition, revised by Janet Whitcut, has been completely reset and brought up-to-date for modern usage. This classic guide, full of advice on how to avoid woolly expressions, bad... |
P.H. Matthews Covers the major aspects of linguistics. This guide begins at the 'arts' end of the subject and finishes at the 'science' end, with the discoveries regarding language in the brain... | Stephen Anderson How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages disappearing? These are some of the questions considered... |
Robert McCrum Go anywhere in the world today and you'll see or hear English in some form. It may not be the Queen's English that you're hearing, but it is a form... | |
J. L. Hunt; A. G. Pringle; T. L.... Presents a survey of expressions prevalent in the Army, Navy and RAF during the Second World War. | |