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Eric Partridge: In His Own Words
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in the history of the English language have left as indelible a mark as Eric Partridge — lexicographer, slang scholar, and tireless...
Eric Partridge: In His Own Words
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA rich work of linguistic biography and anthology, Eric Partridge: In His Own Words presents the life and...
Eric Partridge in His Own Words
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis book presents a collection of thoughts and reflections from the renowned lexicographer Eric Partridge. It captures his insights on...
Usage & Abusage
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLanguage is a weapon, and in the wrong hands it becomes a blunt instrument — Usage & Abusage...
Usage & Abusage
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLanguage is a battleground, and Eric Partridge's Usage & Abusage is its definitive field guide — a witty,...
Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English (Abusus Non Tollit Usum)
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The World Of Words: An Introduction To Language In General And To English And American In Particular
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Edition: 2nd ed., revisedCondition remarks: Condition: Fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning and foxing. Markings: unmkd. Binding condition: Binding intact but worn. Fold-out chart intact. Language is...
Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary Of Modern English
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLanguage is alive — breathing, shifting, and endlessly surprising — and Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English...
You Have A Point There: A New And Complete Guide To Punctuation
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Author: Eric PartridgeBinding: HardbackPublished: Hamish Hamilton., 1953Condition:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis comprehensive guide to punctuation, You Have A Point There, presents a meticulous examination of English grammar's...
A Dictionary Of Slang And Unconventional English: Colloquialisms And Catch-Phrases, Solecisms And Catachreses, Nicknames, Vulgarisms And Such Americanisms As Have Been Naturalized
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodLanguage is a living thing, and nowhere does it breathe more freely than in the shadowy margins of the unconventional — in...
By Hook or by Crook: A Journey in Search of English
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The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia
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The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia; Second Edition
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Author: David CrystalBinding: PaperbackPublished: Cambridge University Press., 1998Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor staining to page edges.The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia; Second Edition presents an authoritative compendium...
Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation
Author: David Crystal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 It's not what you say, it's the way that you say it ... There have long been debates about 'correct' pronunciation...
Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation
It's not what you say, it's the way that you say it ... There have long been debates about 'correct' pronunciation in the English language, and Britain's most distinguished linguistic...
The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia
The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia is the authoritative single-volume reference work on people, both living and dead. In addition to its thousand or more pages of A-Z entries, the book offers...
Alan Partridge: Big Beacon: The hilarious new memoir from the nation's favourite broadcaster
Author: Alan Partridge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'There are prizes, normally named after PG Wodehouse, given to literary comic novels and non-fiction, and these books will have blurbs...
Stairway to Heaven: Led Zepplin Uncensored
No one knew Led Zeppelin like Richard Cole. The band's tour manager for more than a decade, Cole was there when they burst onto the music scene, achieved cult status,...
Staying Relevant: The Book - the uproarious Sunday Times bestseller
Welcome to Staying Relevant, a book written by two best friends . . . contains swearing, adult themes and outrageous stories from life in the spotlight. If you think you...
Immortal Thoughts
A remarkable, heartfelt, beautifully written analysis of the late work of 19 major artists that Max Porter describes as 'completely and utterly marvellous'. 'Painting ... exists and exults in immortal...
Unquiet Landscape: Places and Ideas in 20th-Century British Painting
Christopher Neve's classic book is a journey into the imagination through the English landscape. How is it that artists, by thinking in paint, have come to regard the landscape as...
Transcendent: Dark Swarm: Book 2 in the edge-of-your-seat, high-octane
JOIN THE TEAM. SAVE THE WORLD. Join twin geniuses Jacob and Kira on an out-of-this-world mission to protect the planet in the second book in the Transcendent series. Jacob and...
Richard Rogers on Modern Architecture
'Thames & Hudson's new, affordable, covetable 'Pocket Perspectives': beautifully illustrated essays by canonical writers' Financial Times A manifesto for the future of architectural practice and the necessity of good design...