Eats, Shites and Leaves by A. Parody
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Category: Literary Criticism
The English language is an ever changing and complex thing, and for every English language 'stickler' who never puts a foot wrong there is somebody bamboozled and befuddled by grammatical trapdoors and puzzles in punctuation, who spells words with diabolical inaccuracy. "Eats, Shites & Leaves" is th ...Show more
Why is Q Always Followed by U?: Word-perfect Answers to the Most-asked Questions About Language by Michael Quinion
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Category: Literary Criticism
Brings us the answers to nearly two hundred of the most intriguing questions the author been asked about language over the years.
How Language Works by David Crystal
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Category: Literary Criticism
In this fascinating survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work, David Crystal answers every question you might ever have had about the nuts and bolts of language in his usual highly illuminating way. Along the way, we find out about eyebrow flashes, whistling languages, how par ...Show more
The Return of the Word Spy by Ursula Dubosarsky
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Category: Literary Criticism | Series: Word Spy | Reading Level: 9-12
From the beginning of time, the WORD SPY has been creeping down hallways, hiding in shadows and journeying through different lands to discover everything there is to know about the English language. In her first book, The Word Spy, she shared with us the secrets she'd learnt about English, from the firs ...Show more
The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
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Category: Literary Criticism
A word book, straight up, with a twist, "The Devil's Dictionary" is an American classic. A Yankee Oscar Wilde with a wicked edge to his tongue, Ambrose Bierce, friend and rival of Mark Twain, was one of America's first great writers and journalists. His razor-sharp wit and underlying rage against hypocr ...Show more
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
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Category: Literary Criticism | Reading Level: very good
Now available in paperback, The Meaning of Everything is the absorbing story behind the making of the Oxford English Dictionary. Originally mooted in 1857, it would be another 71 years before the British prime minister could celebrate the completion of 'the greatest enterprise of its kind in history'. I ...Show more
Movers and Shakers by John Ayto
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Category: Literary Criticism
Take a fascinating journey from cornflakes (1907) to spam (1994). This vivid picture of the last 105 years is based on John Ayto's critically acclaimed "Twentieth Century Words", and gives a selection of the key words added to the English language in the twentieth century and the early years of the twen ...Show more
The Story of English: How the English Language Conquered the World by Philip Gooden
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Category: Literary Criticism
Born as a Germanic tongue with the arrival in Britain of the Anglo-Saxons in the early medieval period, heavily influenced by Norman French from the 11th century, and finally emerging as modern English from the late Middle Ages, the English language has grown to become the linguistic equivalent of a sup ...Show more
Completely Lost for Words: Creative Messages for All Occasions by Kathy Schmidt
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Category: Literary Criticism
Turn your cards into keepsakes with these inspiring and personal messages. You'll never be lost for words with these greetings to suit every occasion. This book gives you the chance to send your friends and loved ones a message they will remember.
X-treme Latin by Henry Beard
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Category: Literary Criticism
In X-treme Latin, bestselling author Henry Beard provides Latin with attitude in an indispensable phrasebook that delivers hundreds of impeccable put-downs, comebacks and wisecracks. X-treme Latin has a phrase for every occasion.
Bendable Learnings: The Wisdom of Modern Management by Don Watson
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Category: Literary Criticism
Mission statements are everywhere: you have to have one, whether you're a Fortune 500 company, a hedge fund, a primary school, a church or a hockey club. Without a mission statement, who would know what your values are, or what your culture is? And how then, going forward, will you get buy-in on your st ...Show more
The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street - Letters between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952-73 by John Saumarez Smith
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Category: Literary Criticism | Reading Level: very good
A brilliant personality, remarkable novelist and legendary letter writer, it is widely known that Nancy Mitford was also a bookseller. From 1942-6 she worked in Heywood Hill's famous shop in Curzon Street, and effectively ran it when the male staff were called up for war service. After the war she left ...Show more