Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient words ('loaf') to cutt...

Why is there an 'h' in ghost? William Caxton, inventor of the printing press and his Flemish empl...

This volume is one in a series of monographs being issued under the general title of 'Disorders o...

All languages encode aspects of culture and every culture has its own specificities to be proud o...

Steven Pinker meets Bill Bryson in this landmark exploration of language.In the author's own wo...

This collection is a resource book for those working with language disordered clients in a range ...

This book was first published in 1969. Its author, David Crystal OBE, has since written some of t...

A series to meet the need for books on modern English that are both up-to-date and authoritative....

The Internet is now an integral part of contemporary life, and linguists are increasingly studyin...

This book takes a long hard look at the text-messaging phenomenon and its effects on literacy, la...

A beautiful gift book that collects together brilliantly quirky English dialect words, before the...

For decades, people have been studying Shakespeare's life and times and in recent years there has...