Crystal, David

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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2004

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Crystal, David

Summary: Explaining the nuts and bolts of grammar presents a special challenge, because--far more than is the case with spelling and punctuation--the subject is burdened with a centuries-old history of educational practice that many will recall as anything but glamorous. One of the world's foremost authorities on the English language, Crystal sets out to rid grammar of its undeserved reputation as a dry...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Crystal, David

Summary: Combines personal reflections, historical allusions, and traveler's observations about the author's encounters with language and its users throughout the English-speaking world.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2008

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Crystal, David

Summary: "The triumphant concluding volume in David Crystal's classic trilogy on the English language combines the first history of English punctuation with a complete guide on how to use it. Behind every punctuation mark lies a thousand stories. The punctuation of English, marked with occasional rationality, is founded on arbitrariness and littered with oddities. For a system of a few dozen marks it...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015

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Crystal, David

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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2005

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Crystal, David

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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 1995

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Crystal, David

Summary: "This book is for people who love Shakespeare, or love language, or both. David Crystal, one of the world's foremost authorities on the English language, with his actor son, Ben, have taken a fresh look at the vocabulary of Shakespeare's poems and plays and compiled a glossary of nearly 14,000 words and meanings. They have included every word which presents the reader with difficulty arising...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2002

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