Cliches: Avoid Them Like the Plague by Nigel Fountain
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Category: English Language
At the end of the day, when it comes to getting your head around cliches, everybody seems to be singing from the same hymn sheet. Cliches have become such a familiar part of the English language and people's everyday speech that many are now trite, meaningless and often quite irritating. This book looks ...Show more
Plain Words by Ernest Gowers
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Category: English Language
'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 humour, charm and authority had made it a bestseller. Since then it has never been out of print. Six decades ...Show more
Dirty Love by Andre Dubus III
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Category: English Language
In these linked novellas in which characters walk out the back door of one story and into the next, love is "dirty"--tangled up with need, power, boredom, ego, fear, and fantasy. On the Massachusetts coast north of Boston, a controlling manager, Mark, discovers his wife's infidelity after twenty-five ye ...Show more
English for the Natives: Discover the Grammar You Don't Know You Know by Harry Ritchie
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Category: English Language
'My first English lesson was grammar with the terrifying Mrs Petrie. She spent the entire time marching up and down the classroom, thwacking various items of school furniture with a ruler while she banged on about the ING part of the verb. I sat there, vibrating with fear, desperately trying to figure o ...Show more
Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling Past of the Cryptic Crossword by Alan Connor
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Category: English Language
Two Girls, One on Each Knee: A History of Cryptic Crosswords is an audaciously constructed book on the pleasures and puzzles of cryptic crosswords and their linguistic wordplay, from Alan Connor, the Guardian's writer on crosswords. On 21 December 2013, the crossword puzzle will be 100 years old. In the ...Show more
Spell It Out: The singular story of English spelling by David Crystal
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Category: English 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
Words On Words - Quotations about Language and Languages by David Crystal
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Category: English Language | Reading Level: very good
A thematically structured dictionary of quotations relating to all aspects of language. Ranging from Wilde to Wordsworth and James Bond to Winnie-the-Pooh, 65 sections bring together the wise, witty and whimsical insights from over the years.
More Chinglish: Speaking in Tongues by Oliver Lutz Radtke
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Category: English Language
"Chinglish 2: Speaking in Tongues" offers a fresh look at the unintentional but very funny creative misuses of the English language in Chinese street signs, products, and advertising. Enjoy 100 brand-new examples of this unique cultural heritage, which, due to efforts from the Chinese government to wipe ...Show more
How to Sound Really Clever by Hubert Van Den Bergh
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Category: English Language
How to Sound Really Clever explains and illustrates over 600 words that can outfox us, such as 'condign', 'Zelig-like' and 'agitprop'. This is the sequel to the successful How to Sound Clever (2010) which taught you 600 words you really ought to know but haven't had the time to look up in the dictionary ...Show more
Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language
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Category: English Language
' ...in public life the language has never been held in less regard. It withers in the dungeons of the technocratic mind. It is butchered by the media. In politics it lacks all qualifications for the main game.' Don Watson Almost sixty years ago, George Orwell described the decay of language and why thi ...Show more
Write Every Time (or Should That be Right?) by Stride, Lottie (Illustrator)
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Category: English Language
Thirty Days Has September: Cool Ways to Remember Stuff by STEVENS, CHRIS (ILLUSTRATOR)
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Category: English Language