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Idiomantics: The Weird and Wonderful World of Popular Phrases by Philip Gooden
$24.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries, Language & Reference
Idiomantics is a unique exploration of the world of idiomatic phrases. The very etymology of the word 'idiom' reveals what's so endlessly fascinating about the wide range of colourful phrases we use in everyday speech: their peculiarity. They're peculiar both in the sense of being particular or unique t ...Show more
May We Borrow Your Language? : How English Steals Words from All over the World by Philip Gooden
$25.00 NZD
Category: Dictionaries, Language & Reference
The English language that is spoken by one billion people around the world is a linguistic mongrel, its vocabulary a diverse mix resulting from centuries of borrowing from other tongues. From the Celtic languages of pre-Roman Britain to Norman French; from the Vikings' Old Scandinavian to Persian, Arawa ...Show more
The Story of English: How the English Language Conquered the World by Philip Gooden
$32.99 NZD
Category: History
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
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