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FROM THE INVENTOR OF 'THE LEAGUE OF THE LEXICON' BOARDGAME - THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ALL WHO LOVE WORDS AND LANGUAGE.
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Schott is back - and better than ever! From the mind that created the million-copy selling Schott's Original Miscellany comes Schott's Significa- an indispensable ...
Uncover the lost magic of language
Do you revel in rare words? Swoon over poetic turns of phrase? The Word Nerd Dictionary of Obscure & ...
Oscar Wilde once wrote "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train." This book is your ...
An A-Z of terrible English by the Telegraph's former master grammarian
The English language has evolved throughout its history, and usually for good reasons ...
Whatever you need, Susie Dent has a word for it.
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What do a comic alphabet, a glorious lipogram and a wellerism have in common?
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Every single one of the letters you're reading right now can tell a fascinating story, having been on a long linguistic, historical, political and ...
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Mignon Fogarty, Grammar Girl
The English language is where words go to be tortured and mutilated into unrecognizable shadows of their ...
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Lost origins of words revealed. We like to recount that goodbye started out as "god be with you," that whiskey comes from the Gaelic for ...
Newly updated to incorporate recent additions to the English language, the Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins provides a fascinating exploration of the origins and development ...
