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Walter Skeat (1835-1912) was one of the greatest investigators of the roots of the English language, and his remarkable scholarship was instrumental in the revival of the great works of...

'Ingenious... a glorious portrait of the great 15th-century prince of learning' Daily Telegraph 'A deeply fascinating, sui generis book by a brilliant scholar-writer, which uses the life story of a...

Welcome to Europe as you've never known it before, seen through the peculiarities of its languages and dialects. Combining linguistics and cultural history, Gaston Dorren takes us on an intriguing...

Egyptian hieroglyphs are the subject of endless fascination to many. This is the first book to make the basics of hieroglyphs truly easy to understand. Explaining briefly the history and...

A proverb is a common saying which offers advice or presents a moral in a short or pithy manner. In the past, proverbs had the status of universal truths and...

Denis Donoghue turns his attention to the practice of metaphor and to its lesser cousins, simile, metonym, and synecdoche. Metaphor ("a carrying or bearing across") supposes that an ordinary word...

Where did human language come from? How many languages are there? How do we acquire our first language or learn a second one? The highly acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language...

Rhetoric is what gives words power. It's nothing to be afraid of. It isn't the exclusive preserve of politicians: it's everywhere, from your argument with the insurance company to your...

This is a guide to Russian usage for those who have already acquired the basics of the language and wish to extend their knowledge. Unlike conventional grammars, it gives special...

An introduction to natural language semantics that offers an overview of the empirical domain and an explanation of the mathematical concepts that underpin the discipline.This textbook offers a comprehensive introduction...

The book titled Writing True-life Stories by the author Susan Feldhake. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This book covers most of the topics dealt with in courses described as either "sociolinguistics" or "the sociology of language". Planned as a basic introduction, it requires little previous knowledge...

Here is a reference tool that no poet can afford to be without. A good rhyming dictionary is an invaluable aid to anyone composing verse. Frances Stillman's dictionary is the...

The book titled An Introduction to Language by the author Victoria A. Fromkin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This book explores the much maligned and misunderstood genre of declamation. Instead of a bastard rhetoric, declamation should be seen as a venue within which the rhetoric of the legitimate...

Once upon a time, the worst words you could utter were short, simple and tended to be four letters in length. Now things are more complicated. To be insulted as...

The book titled The Little, Brown Handbook by the author H. Ramsey Fowler. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The aim of this book is to explain style in terms which do not presuppose too extensive an acquaintaince on the part of the reader with linguistic terminology. Its orientation...

The book titled The Book of Babel: Words and the Way We See Things by the author Nigel Lewis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

The fabulous paperback for all fans of Bill Bryson and Melvyn Bragg. When and why did 'thou' disappear from Standard English? Would a Victorian Cockney have said 'observation' or 'hobservation'?...

The book titled The Bedford Introduction to Literature by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

English was shaped by a damp green land in the far north and became the language of a wide brown land, Australia. How does that affect people's response to the...

The book titled London Street Names by the author Gillian Bebbington. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A successful professional freelance writer shows how anyone with basic writing ability can set up a full or part-time small business and make money providing writing, editing and editorial related...

Those endless afternoons where you struggled to remember the third person singular present indicative of volo (vult) may be a long time ago. But, if you have the vaguest memory...

The book titled 2, 715 One Line Quotations by the author Edward F. Murphy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Japanese Kanji and Kana Workbook offers a systematic approach to learning Japanese characters. It is designed to be used with the best-selling Japanese Kanji & Kana: A Guide to the...

The Essential Thai Phrasebook and Dictionary includes simple sentences used when meeting people, starting conversations, as well as a basic grammar and pronunciation guide to help you start speaking Thai...

A multi-purpose reference work, providing the key to the hidden meanings in Egyptian art: an encyclopaedia of the major signs and symbols, a visual compendium of artistic motifs, a sourcebook...

Public lettering in all its forms--official inscriptions on buildings, commercial graphics, signs, epitaphs on tombstones, graffiti--is a fixture of urban life. In Public Lettering, Armando Petrucci reconstructs the history of...

Punctuation can make all the difference between a good piece of writing and a superb piece of writing. In The Art of Punctuation, Noah Lukeman explores and demystifies each punctuation...

From our earliest years we have heard proverbs, and many of them are repeated without much thought. Yes, 'birds of a feather flock together' and 'absence makes the heart grow...

This book is chockers with colourful Australian slang. This unique dialect is widely spoken across Australia and manifests experiences from the country's broad history. From borrowing Aboriginal words, through convict...

'MAGIC' JO BRAND 'HAPPIFYING' STEPHEN FRY 'SUSIE DENT IS A NATIONAL TREASURE' RICHARD OSMAN Whether it's the distress of a bad haircut (AGE-OTORI) or longing for the food someone else...

Most of us never realize how many words and expressions used in everyday English have a nautical origin. This pocketbook explains the practical ship-board beginnings of over 200 such phrases...

For 1500 years the hieroglphs of Ancient Egypt defied interpretation but were thought to conceal ancient wisdom and religious secrets. When at last they were deciphered, the hieroglyphs provided something...

You won't find 'terraglossia' on Google, or in a dictionary. It's a word coined by acclaimed academic and award-winning author Dr Debra Dank in response to the first Europeans' description...

Among the recent developments in the language sciences, the coming-of-age of the field of pragmatics and its official inauguration in the mid-seventies stand out as some of the most significant...

This is the history of the lexical underworld of the English language. It details the story of impropriety in language and of the lower registers of the foul and obscene....