Language Wars, Paperback - Henry Hitchings

What really is correctness? Why do people care so much about it? What is at stake in the quarrel about good and bad usage?

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Journey into the history of English and discover how words have entered our language to make it what it is today.Publisher: John Murray PressAuthor...

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A lavishly illustrated look at the history behind one of the most iconic toys of all time - the Teddy Bear.

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In Motherless Tongues, Vicente L. Rafael examines the vexed relationship between language and history gleaned from the workings of translation in t...

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DescriptionWritten from a non-Western perspective, this book exposes the inadequacy of oppositions such as native versus non-native Englishes and E...

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The most commonly used 501 German verbs are arranged alphabetically in a table format, one verb per page with English translation, and conjugated i...

"A glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive."Hobson-Jobso...

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Michel Henry defends the illuminating thesis that Incarnation is not existence in a body, but existence in the flesh. It is not in a body that fles...

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