Words in Time and Place
David Crystal is well known as the foremost scholar in language, and has produced yet another extraordinary book exploring the English language through the historical…… Read More »
Category: Language & Linguistics
It's Been Said Before
A very informative and entertaining book for anyone interested in the nature and development of language, making one reflect on the nature and context of…… Read More »
Movers & Shakers
This is one of the most interesting books I have seen this year. It is a chronology of words that have shaped our age since…… Read More »
Getting the Point.
Many readers may remember the unexpected success of Lynne Truss's book on punctuation, 'Eats Shoots and Leaves'. This book advertises itself as a panic free…… Read More »
Eats, Shoots and Leaves
When I was teaching at Winchester College twenty years ago, one of my colleagues ran what he called 'The Society for the Protection of Spoken…… Read More »
The Meaning of Everything - The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
This book is more than the story of the OED - it goes back to the origins of English words the development of dictionaries from…… Read More »