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Begat - The King James Bible & the English Language by David Crystal
$28.95 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
What do the following have in common? Let there be light - A fly in the ointment - A rod of iron - New wine in old bottles Lick the dust - How are the mighty fallen - Kick against the pricks - Wheels within wheels They are all in the King James Bible. This astonishing book "has contributed far more to E ...Show more
Disappearing Dictionary by CRYSTAL, DAVID
$19.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Wherever you go in the English-speaking world, there are linguistic riches from times past awaiting rediscovery. All you have to do is choose a location, find some old documents, and dig a little. In The Disappearing Dictionary, linguistics expert Professor David Crystal collects together delightful dia ...Show more
Disappearing Dictionary: A Treasury of Lost English Dialect Words by David Crystal
$19.99 AUD
Category: Reference
Wherever you go in the English-speaking world, there are linguistic riches from times past awaiting rediscovery. All you have to do is choose a location, find some old documents, and dig a little. In The Disappearing Dictionary, linguistics expert Professor David Crystal collects together delightful dia ...Show more
Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary by David Crystal; Ben Crystal
$26.95 AUD
Category: Reference
The Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary is the first of its kind, a brand new illustrated alphabetical dictionary of all the words and meanings students of Shakespeare need to know. Every word has an example sentence selected from the twelve most studied plays including Macbeth, Hamlet, Romeo and ...Show more
Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion by David Crystal
$39.99 AUD
Category: Reference
David Crystal, one of the world's foremost authorities on the English language has taken a fresh look at the vocabulary of Shakespeare's poems and plays and compiled a glossary of nearly 14,000 words and meanings that may be misunderstood by modern readers.
That's the Ticket for Soup!: Victorian Views on Vocabulary as Told in the Pages of 'Punch' by David Crystal
$29.99 AUD
Category: Reference
The vocabulary of past times, no longer used in English, is always fascinating, especially when we see how it was pilloried by the satirists of the day. Here we have Victorian high and low society, with its fashionable and unfashionable slang, its class awareness and the jargon of steam engines, motor c ...Show more
We Are Not Amused: Victorian Views on Pronunciation as Told in the Pages of Punch by David Crystal
$29.99 AUD
Category: Reference
Pronunciation governs our regional and social identity more powerfully than any other aspect of spoken language. No wonder, then, that it has attracted most attention from satirists. In this intriguing book, David Crystal shows how our feelings about pronunciation today have their origins in the way our ...Show more
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