Wherever you go in the English-speaking world, there are linguistic riches from times past awaiting rediscovery. All you have to …
A book about the English language is a daring enterprise, for it has many perceptive critics as there are fluent …
This Second Edition of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language presents a mass of new information and introduces the subject of …
When my copy arrived, I discovered it is literally printed upside down. The text on the binding points one way, …
Did you know that the English language has over 150 words for the adjective 'drunk' developed over 1,000 years? Be …
David Crystal’s A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics has long been the standard single-volume reference for its field. Now available …
David Crystal's informative account of the rise of English as a global language explores the history, current status and potential …
In recent years, the Internet has come to dominate our lives. E-mail, instant messaging and chat are rapidly replacing conventional …
