Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
This standard work on punctuation has long been judged the foremost study of the subject. It reveals punctuation to be both an indispensable craft and an invaluable art - a friend not an enemy.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Drawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressions used or coined before 1914.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
This work is full of things better left unsaid: hackneyed phrases, idioms battered into senselessness, infuriating Gallicisms, once-familiar quotations and tags from the ancient classics.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Drawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressions used or coined before 1914.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
First published in 1933 (this edition in 1939), this book sees Partridge introducing the reader to the eccentric lexicographers Wesley and Captain Grose. In an entertaining way, the... Læs mere
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
This set reissues important selected works by Eric Partridge, covering the period from 1933 to 1968. Together, the books look at many and diverse aspects of language, focusing in particular on English.