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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.75A truly original book in every sense of the word, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows poetically defines emotions that we all feel but don't have the words to express, until now-from the creator of the... -
The Language of Tattoos: 150 Symbols and What They Mean by Oliver Munden
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £12.46This beautifully illustrated guide delves deep into the meaning and significance of different tattoo symbols, exploring the rich cultural history around the world of this widespread form of body art... -
Troublesome Words by Bill Bryson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95What is the difference between mean and median, blatant and flagrant, flout and flaunt? Is it whodunnit or whodunit? Do you know? Are you sure?With Troublesome Words, journalist and bestselling... -
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59An extraordinary tale of madness, genius and obsession, discover the true story of the two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary - and literary history!The... -
Gobsmacked!: The British Invasion of American English Ben Yagoda 9780691262291
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.76A spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishisms-for good or illThe British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America-from French fries to... -
Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language by Bill Bryson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to...'Only Bill Bryson could make a book about the English language so entertaining. With his boundless... -
Guilty by Definition: The debut linguistic mystery novel from Dictionary Corner's resident lexicographer Susie Dent 9781804183946
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.49THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!The must-have gift for the reader in your life this Christmas.'KEPT ME READING EAGERLY'Philip Pullman'HUGE FUN AND, AS YOU'D EXPECT, ALSO BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN'... -
Red Herrings & White Elephants - The Origins of the Phrases We Use Every Day by Albert Jack
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10'The man with all the answers in Albert Jack' Daily Express'Square meal' 'Load of old codswallop' 'Egg on your face' 'In the limelight'. . .The English language is littered with everyday expressions... -
The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary by Peter Gilliver 9780199568369
RRP: £15.49Booksplease Price: £12.47The Ring of Words describes the powerful and unique relationship between Tolkien's creative use of the English language in his fictional works and his professional work on the Oxford English... -
The Word Detective: A Life in Words: From Serendipity to Selfie by John Simpson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £4.01Language is always changing. No one knows where it is going but the best way to future-cast is to look at the past. John Simpson animates for us a tradition of researching and editing, showing us... -
Radical: A Life of My Own by Xiaolu Guo 9781529920024
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15The new memoir from prize-winning writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo - playful, provocative and original, it's her deeply personal take on striving for a life of her own'When it comes to spinning light... -
Garner's Modern English Usage by Bryan A. Garner
RRP: £51.00Booksplease Price: £41.72The most original and authoritative voice of today's English lexicography presents a fully revised new edition of his beloved usage dictionary When Bryan Garner published the first edition of A... -
The Lexicon by William F. Buckley Jr 9780156006163
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156006163Author William F. Buckley JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 128 -
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries Kory Stamper 9781101970263
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101970263Author Kory StamperFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint < -
Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction by Lynda Mugglestone
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Do, or should, dictionaries control language? How do they treat language change, both now and in the past? Which words do dictionaries leave out - and on what grounds? Dictionaries are far more... -
Dictionary Days by Ilan Stavans 9781555974190
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.88A dictionary, despite its heroic efforts to pin down language, is destined for failure the moment a single word is printed; for language, with its eternal mutations, is forever uncontainable... -
Extraterrestrial Languages by Daniel Oberhaus 9780262548649
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £14.72If we send a message into space, will extraterrestrial beings receive it? Will they understand?The endlessly fascinating question of whether we are alone in the universe has always been accompanied... -
Jonathan Swift's WordBook: A Vocabulary Compiled for Esther Johnson and Copied in Her Own Hand by A.C. Elias 9781644530252
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Words and the First World War: Language, Memory, Vocabulary by Julian Walker 9781350001930
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A Vedic Concordance: A Revised, Updated and Improved Devanagari Version of Bloomfield's Vedic Concordance by Dr Ravi Prakash Arya 9788187710806
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Vedic Concordance of Mantras as Per Rishi and Devata by Dr Ravi Prakash Arya 9788187710769
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Vedic Concordance of Mantras as Per Rishi and Devata by Dr Ravi Prakash Arya 9788187710752
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A Vedic Concordance: A Revised, Updated and Improved Devanagari Version of Bloomfield's Vedic Concordance by Dr Ravi Prakash Arya 9788187710110
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Vollständiges Wörterbuch Deutsch-Esperanto in drei Bänden. Band 3 (S-Z): Plena Vortaro Germana-Esperanto en tri volumoj. Volumo 3 (S-Z) by Erich-Dieter Krause 9781595694447
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All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia by Simon Garfield 9780063292307
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Lexicography, Translation, and Text-Critical Matters in Hebrew, Greek, and Syriac by Anne Gardner 9781463245856
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The Pocket Geordie English 9781836160014
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.06From 'Howay, man!' to 'Haddaway!' become fluent in Geordie. Geordie, spoken in Newcastle and in Tyneside on the banks of the river Tyne in the county of Northumberland in the north-east of England,... -
The Pocket Irish-English by Gemini 9781917082976
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781917082976Author GeminiFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint -
A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect and Collection of Provincialisms in Use in the County of Sussex, Issue 6 by William Douglas Parish 9780371127278
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £13.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371127278Author William Douglas ParishFormat PaperbackPage Count 180 -
The Pocket Scouse-English Gemini 9781836160045
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.06From 'trabs' for trainers to 'Z-Cars' for the police, understand both the roots and key words of one of England's most widely recognised dialects. It's said that Scouse, with its quick repartee and...