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Making a Point: The Pernickity Story of English Punctuation by David Crystal
32.99 NZD
Category: Language
Behind every punctuation mark lie a thousand stories. The punctuation of English, marked with occasional rationality, is founded on arbitrariness and littered with oddities. For a system of a few dozen marks it generates a disproportionate degree of uncertainty and passion, inspiring organisations like ...Show more
Rediscover Grammar by David Crystal
34.95 NZD
36.99 (5% off)
Category: Study Guides
*Clear 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 communications and analyses of grammar in whole texts to reflect the modern world realistically *Updated to refle ...Show more
Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion by David Crystal
49.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
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.
Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation by David Crystal
32.99 NZD
Category: Language
It'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, David Crystal, is here to set the record straight. Sounds Appealing tells us exactly why, and how, we pronounce w ...Show more
Spell It Out - The Story of English Spelling by David Crystal
36.99 NZD
Category: Language | Reading Level: very good
This is an enlightening tour of English spelling that untangles 'stationery' from 'stationary' - and explains why the 'i before e except after c' rule is so misleading. Why is there an 'h' in ghost? William Caxton, inventor of the printing press and his Flemish employees are to blame: without a dictiona ...Show more
Spell It Out: The singular story of English spelling by David Crystal
27.99 NZD
Category: Language
This is a unique journey through English spelling, untangling the fascinating origins of its greatest eccentricities. Why 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 Brug ...Show more
Story of English in 100 Words by David Crystal
28.99 NZD
Category: History
This title is an eye-opening tour of the English language through the ages. Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient word ('loaf') to cutting edge ('twittersphere') and spanning the indispensable words that shape our tongue ('and', 'what') to the more fanciful ('fopdood ...Show more
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language by David Crystal
84.95 NZD
103.95 (18% off)
Category: Reference
The 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 read and popularly acclaimed. It has played a key role in the spread of general interest in language mat ...Show more
The Concise Oxford Dictionary: The Classic First Edition by Professor David Crystal
39.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries
The Concise Oxford English Dictionary, today a world-famous bestseller, has always been a ground-breaking dictionary. In its first edition, The Concise Oxford Dictionary was adapted by Henry Watson Fowler and Francis George Fowler from The Oxford Dictionary (now known as the Oxford English Dictionary). ...Show more
The New Penguin Encyclopedia by David Crystal
79.95 NZD
Category: Reference | Series: Penguin Reference Books S.
This encyclopaedia's coverage runs from Aachen to Zygote, with over 27,500 articles on all branches of human knowledge. In all, it contains over 2 million words and 300 charts, maps, and diagrams.
The New Penguin Encyclopedia: Second Edition by David Crystal
79.95 NZD
Category: Reference
Edited by David Crystal, the UK's most widely respected reference editor, this second edition of The Penguin Encyclopedia is the most authoritative and topical one-volume encyclopedia available. New entries in this edition include: Hans Blix and Jay Garner, Ricky Gervais and Ozzie Osbourne, David Blai ...Show more
The New Penguin Factfinder by David Crystal
44.95 NZD
Category: Reference
The New Penguin Factfinder is the most comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date general factbook available. With sections ranging from art and culture to sports and games, it is a goldmine of facts, figures and statistics on every conceivable subject, backed by maps, diagrams and an indispensable ind ...Show more