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Faux Pas? by Philip Gooden
$28.00 NZD
Category: Reference
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
Faux Pas : A no-nonsense guide to words and phrases from other languages by Philip Gooden
$35.00 NZD
Category: Reference
If you have ever been bamboozled by the use of a foreign word or phrase, or simply want to spice up your vocabulary with some well-chosen bons mots, then this is the book for you. Thousands of foreign words and phrases have been absorbed into the language and are currently used in English, from the ever ...Show more
Idiomantics: The Weird and Wonderful World of Popular Phrases by Philip Gooden
$25.00 NZD
Category: 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: NZ 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: NZ non-fiction
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
Skyscrapers, Hemlines and the Eddie Murphy Rule: Life's Hidden Laws, Rules and Theories by Philip Gooden
$33.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
What is the shade of difference between Sod's Law and Murphy's Law? What is the Helsinki Bus Station Theory? What part do the McNaughton Rules and the Miranda Law play in criminal justice? Plenty of books claim to tell you how to succeed in life, love or business with infallible sets of guidelines and s ...Show more
The Story of English: How the English Language Conquered the World by Philip Gooden
$33.00 NZD
Category: Reference
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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