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David Crystal's 50 Questions About English Usage by David Crystal 9781108959186
Booksplease Price: $17.33David Crystal provides concise, accessible answers to fifty questions about English language usage. In this compact, user-friendly book, David Crystal draws on his extensive knowledge and experience... -
The Stories of English by David Crystal
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.66When and why did 'thou' disappear from Standard English? Would a Victorian Cockney have said 'observation' or 'hobservation'? Was Jane Austen making a mistake when she wrote 'Jenny and James are... -
How Language Works by David Crystal
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.08In 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... -
English as a Global Language by David Crystal
Booksplease Price: $23.97David Crystal's classic English as a Global Language considers the history, present status and future of the English language, focusing on its role as the leading international language. English has... -
Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary by David Crystal
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.83Winner of Best Book, Publication, or Recording prize at the Falstaff Awards 2015 Shortlisted for the 2016 SLA Information Book Award The Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary is the first of... -
Words Words Words by David Crystal 9780199210770
RRP: $16.74Booksplease Price: $12.05Words, Words, Words is all about the wonder of words. Drawing on a lifetime's experience, David Crystal explores language in all its rich varieties through words: the very building blocks of our... -
Rediscover Grammar Third edition by David Crystal
RRP: $59.63Booksplease Price: $58.96Clear demonstration of how language structures link together, description of features and usage and cautions against easy mistakes. Includes new sections on ethnic variation and electronic... -
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Discover Grammar by David Crystal 9780582294356 [USED COPY]
RRP: $39.53Booksplease Price: $2.64Product Description An enthusiastic and practical approach to language learning A riveting and valuable combination of David Crystal's language expertise and Geoff Barton's sound, practical classroom... -
Language and the Internet by David Crystal 9780521868594 [USED COPY]
RRP: $54.93Booksplease Price: $2.68In recent years, the Internet has come to dominate our lives. E-mail, instant messaging and chat are rapidly replacing conventional forms of correspondence, and the Web has become the first port of... -
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The Stories of English by David Crystal 9780141015934 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $3.23When and why did 'thou' disappear from Standard English? Would a Victorian Cockney have said 'observation' or 'hobservation'? Was Jane Austen making a mistake when she wrote 'Jenny and James are... -
Bookish Words & their Surprising Stories David Crystal 9781851246519
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.30The world of books has played a striking role in the history of English vocabulary. Book itself is one of the oldest words in the language, originating from boc in Old English, and appears in many... -
The Gift of the Gab: How Eloquence Works by David Crystal
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.55A many-faceted exploration of spoken eloquence: how it works, how it has evolved, and how to tap its remarkable power We all know eloquence when we hear it. But what exactly is it? And how might we... -
The English Language: A Guided Tour of the Language by David Crystal
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.38This is the definitive survey of the English language - in all its forms. Crystal writes accessibly about the structure of the language, the uses of English throughout the world and finally he gives... -
The Story of Be: A Verb's-Eye View of the English Language by David Crystal
RRP: $20.76Booksplease Price: $16.60It's the most simple, unassuming, innocent-looking verb: 'to be'. Yet it is jam-packed with more different meanings, forms, and uses than any other English word. As he reveals be's multiple... -
Do I Make Myself Clear?: Why Writing Well Matters by Harold Evans
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Harold Evans has edited everything from the urgent files of battlefield reporters to the complex thought processes of Henry Kissinger, and he has been knighted for his services to journalism. In Do I... -
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Txtng: The Gr8 Db8 by David Crystal 9780199571338 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.51This book takes a long hard look at the text-messaging phenomenon and its effects on literacy, language, and society. Young people who seem to spend much of their time texting sometimes appear unable... -
Spell It Out: The singular story of English spelling by David Crystal
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.06Why is there an 'h' in ghost? William Caxton, inventor of the printing press and his Flemish employees are to blame: without a dictionary or style guide to hand in fifteenth century Bruges, the... -
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Words Words Words by David Crystal 9780199210770 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.74Booksplease Price: $2.65Words, Words, Words is all about the wonder of words. Drawing on a lifetime's experience, David Crystal explores language in all its rich varieties through words: the very building blocks of our... -
Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation by David Crystal
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.58It'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 expert,... -
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English as a Global Language by David Crystal 9780521530323 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.40David Crystal, world authority on the English language, presents a lively and factual account of the rise of English as a global language and explores the whys and wherefores of the history, current... -
Making Sense: The Glamorous Story of English Grammar David Crystal 9781781256022
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.58The world's greatest authority on language explains the secrets and subtleties of the grammar of English. David Crystal explores its history and varieties, explains its rules and irregularities and... -
Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language by David Crystal 9780199585854
RRP: $23.44Booksplease Price: $19.75What 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 -... -
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The Story of English in 100 Words by David Crystal 9781846684289 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.80Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient words ('loaf') to cutting edge ('twittersphere') and spanning the indispensable words that shape our tongue ('and', 'what')... -
Listen to Your Child: A Parent's Guide to Children's Language by David Crystal
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Learning to talk is probably the greatest milestone in a child's development: a deeply moving and often hilarious experience for all parents. In this charming and informative book, Britain's leading... -
Wordsmiths and Warriors: The English-Language Tourist's Guide to Britain by David Crystal
RRP: $20.76Booksplease Price: $17.51Wordsmiths and Warriors explores the heritage of English through the places in Britain that shaped it. It unites the warriors, whose invasions transformed the language, with the poets, scholars,... -
Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language by David Crystal 9780199695188
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.13What do the following have in common? Let there be light - Whited sepulchres - A rod of iron - New wine into old bottles Lick the dust - How are the mighty fallen - A thorn in the flesh - Wheels... -
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language by David Crystal 9780521530330 [USED COPY]
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $3.94The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language is one of the publishing phenomena of recent times. Rarely has a book so packed with accurate and well researched factual information been so widely... -
That's the Ticket for Soup!: Victorian Views on Vocabulary as Told in the Pages of 'Punch' by David Crystal
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.30The 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... -
We Are Not Amused: Victorian Views on Pronunciation as Told in the Pages of Punch by David Crystal
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.47Pronunciation 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... -
The English Language: A Guided Tour of the Language by David Crystal 9780141003962 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.64This is the definitive survey of the English language - in all its forms. Crystal writes accessibly about the structure of the language, the uses of English throughout the world and finally he gives... -
The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick-Maker: The story of Britain through its census, since 1801 by Roger Hutchinson
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41At the beginning of each decade for 200 years the national census has presented a self-portrait of the British Isles.The census has surveyed Britain from the Napoleonic wars to the age of the... -
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages Gaston Dorren 9781781256411
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $9.88If you were to master the twenty languages discussed in Babel, you could talk with three quarters of the world's population. But what makes these languages stand out amid the world's estimated 6,500... -
On the Mark: A History of Punctuation from Ancient Egypt to the Emoticon Florence Hazrat 9781800819566
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $20.77'So. Good. So. Sharp. So. Clear. You. Need. This. Book. Period' Lucy Mangan, author of Bookish 'A roller coaster of a story' New York Times Since the dawn of writing, punctuation has helped us... -
The Word Detective: A Life in Words: From Serendipity to Selfie by John Simpson
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $4.15Language 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... -
Plain Words by Rebecca Gowers
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'Be short, be simple, be human.'When Sir Ernest Gowers first wrote Plain Words, it was intended simply as a guide to the proper use of English for the Civil Service. Within a year, however, its... -
Linguistics: Why It Matters Geoffrey K. Pullum 9781509530762
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.89Language is the medium in which we humans compose our thoughts, explain our thinking, construct our arguments, and create works of literature. Without language, societies as complex as ours could not... -
Shakespeare on Toast: Getting a Taste for the Bard by Ben Crystal
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Actor, producer and director Ben Crystal revisits his acclaimed book on Shakespeare for the 400th anniversary of his death, updating and adding three new chapters. Shakespeare on Toast knocks the... -
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Shakespeare on Toast: Getting a Taste for the Bard by Ben Crystal 9781848310544 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $3.56Who's afraid of William Shakespeare? Just about everyone. He wrote too much and what he did write is inaccessible and elitist. Right? Wrong. "Shakespeare on Toast" knocks the stuffing from the staid... -
The Future of Language: How Technology, Politics and Utopianism are Transforming the Way we Communicate Dr Philip Seargeant 9781350538474
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.17Will language as we know it cease to exist? What could this mean for the way we live our lives?Shining a light on the technology currently being developed to revolutionise communication, The Future... -
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English by Hana Videen
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92An entertaining collection of strange, delightful and unexpectedly apt words from the origins of English, which illuminates the lives, beliefs and habits of our linguistic ancestors. 'A marvelous...