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Faux Pas? by Philip Gooden
28.00 NZD
Category: Humour
This book is the winner of the HRH Duke of Edinburgh English Speaking Union English Language Book Award 2006. An award winning language book, this is a lively and engaging expose on the foreign words and phrases that populate our language. Each entry gives a translation of the expression, the language o ...Show more
May We Borrow Your Language? : How English Steals Words from All over the World by Philip Gooden
25.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
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
Name Dropping by Philip Gooden
35.00 NZD
Category: Humour
Ever had a Hitchcockian experience (in the shower perhaps?!) or met someone with a distinctly Ortonesque outlook on life? There are hundreds of words derived from real people who are famous - or infamous - enough to give their stamp to a movement, a way of thinking or acting, a style or even a mood. "Na ...Show more
The Story of English: How the English Language Conquered the World by Philip Gooden
33.00 NZD
35.00 (5% off)
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
Who's Whose? by Philip Gooden
29.99 NZD
Category: Humour
Who's Whose? is an entertaining and straightforward guide to the most commonly confused words in English today, with real examples of good and bad usage to make differences crystal-clear. The Embarrassment Rating involved in each mistake is included, together with an explanation of why the confusion hap ...Show more
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