Every word has a history--and the best ones are stranger, funnier, and more shocking than you’d ever guess Think you kno......more
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This scholarly and accessible dictionary, the first of its kind in Wales, covers the names of human settlements in Wales......more
A poetic treasury of spiritual insight, The Language of the Soul uncovers the original meanings of words to help us reme......more
More than mere labels, medieval titles strongly defined the identities of the persons or groups who bore them. Ontologie......more
Whatever you need, Susie Dent has a word for it. Do you know the name for someone who loves reading in bed, or what a bi......more
If there is one speculation about English and German that has pervaded scholarly work within contrastive linguistics as ......more
By employing a cognitive semiotic theory based on pragmatism and enactivism, this book explores the nature and emergence......more
This volume contains a detailed grammatical description of the dialects of Old Arabic attested in the Safaitic script, a......more
What do a comic alphabet, a glorious lipogram and a wellerism have in common? Or, an audit of accountants, an illusion o......more
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First published in 1970, The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language (Vol. 1) is the first systematic and detaile......more