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Word Books and Dictionaries
Word Books and Dictionaries
Suduko, puzzle books, crosswords and crossword solvers, puns and pithy quotations, wordplay and all things semantic. A verbophiles delight for all wordsmiths and scribblers.
| EDIT. BY CONNIE ROBERTSON Book Number: 23928 |
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The aim of this marvellous new edition is to provide the reader with, firstly, the means of finding a half-remembered phrase or reference. Secondly, examples of what has been said by the famous, th...
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| HENRY YULE Book Number: 60724 |
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Hobson-Jobson is short-hand for the assimilation of foreign words to the sound pattern of the adopting language. Bungalow, pyjamas, verandah, curry, chintz, gingham, mango, junk and catamaran are a...
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| Unknown Book Number: 53404 |
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Highly acclaimed for its competitive edge on other editions of its kind, this dictionary reflects the usage not just of the UK and the USA but also of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa a...
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| LAWRENCE DORFMAN Book Number: 80936 |
Published price: $12.95
Bibliophile price: £0.88
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The "Snark" (a contraction of snide remark, in case you were in a state of Carrollian confusion like us) series of handbooks by Lawrence Dorfman are a delightful collection of the bon mots of the g...
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| MATT POTTER Book Number: 82205 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £2.00
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Goodbyes are always hard, but this collection of resignation letters is a witty and at times dangerously analytical example of goodbyes that are seemingly easy to make. Potter categorises such resi...
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| MAJIC CREATIVE Book Number: 82377 |
Published price: $7.95
Bibliophile price: £0.75
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A cheeky loo book of the Bard's famous lines considered from a rather unusual perspective. Rethink your Shakespeare over and over again as you sit on your own royal throne. Consider the curious s...
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| COMPILED BY MARIA LEACH Book Number: 82546 |
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Sub-titled 'The Wicked Wit of Oscar Wilde' and with dedication page, this is a super gift book, loo book or bedside book. Two or three line witticisms, a timeline of Oscar Wilde's life, his wittic...
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| PAUL ANTHONY Book Number: 82691 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £1.50
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Wordsmiths will find this unique approach to language completely irresistible, while it is also an accessible way in to the subject of etymology for the uninitiated. 50 different lists bring togeth...
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| DAVID HOWARD Book Number: 83020 |
Published price: £14.99
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Story arc, plotting and sub plotting, characterisation, coincidence, classical versus revolutionary screenplay structure, tone, style and atmosphere, the use of time on screen, drama and tension an...
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| STEPHEN ELLCOCK Book Number: 83098 |
Published price: £17.95
Bibliophile price: £3.75
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8½" square big box set board game for up to six players, ages 16 to adult who cringe at business jargon and have a sense of humour. This fun game brings a fresh perspective to the world of office ...
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| JOHN HALPERN Book Number: 83778 |
Published price: £9.99
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A journalist from Liverpool called Arthur Wynne was working in the wordsmith fantasist's Tricks and Jokes department at the New York World when he was invited to come up with a new type of puzzle f...
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| D. B. C. PIERRE Book Number: 83748 |
Published price: £8.99
Bibliophile price: £2.00
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Sub-titled 'A Pocket Guide to Writing Your Way Out of It' this brilliantly funny book is about writing fiction and navigating the trickiness of the whole occupation. '...Scenes like this where cha...
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| JOHN SIMPSON Book Number: 83435 |
Published price: £18.99
Bibliophile price: £7.00
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If there is one person not to play at Scrabble, it is John Simpson. He joined the staff of the Oxford English Dictionary as an editorial assistant in 1976 and became chief editor in 1993 where he r...
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| PETER JONES & D. DARE-PLUMPTON Book Number: 83915 |
Published price: £5.99
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Here - sounds drunk! (3) answer - Hic. The existing condition of one very old rock group? (6,3) answer - Status Quo. Even if the extent of your Latin is only amo, amas, amat, the first two sectio...
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| GARRY WILLS Book Number: 83937 |
Published price: £18
Bibliophile price: £3.00
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The recent modern staging of Julius Caesar at the New Bridge Theatre at Tower Bridge only goes to prove Shakespeare's enduring skill and understanding of political machinations. Renaissance plays ...
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| IGLOO BOOKS Book Number: 83437 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £4.50
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The lettering stands proud on this handsome 7½" square colourfully designed tin box set. Try your hand at wordplay with this range of puzzles to expand your vocabulary. The tin contains magnetic ...
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| SUSIE JONES Book Number: 83088 |
Published price: £9.99
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So many witticisms here that it's hard to know which to quote, though Erma Bombeck's 'Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth' must rank as a gem. Ripostes, insults, politics, cu...
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| WILEY PUBLISHING Book Number: 84146 |
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Really nice quality heavyweight softback with clear headers and layout and some super fact boxes about false friends like 'la photograph' which means photographer and 'physicien' meaning physicist....
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| HANNAH MANKTELOW Book Number: 84048 |
Published price: £10
Bibliophile price: £3.00
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A British Library publication with text to the right and facsimile of the First Folio edition to the left to compare some of the finest phrases and well-known idioms which have passed into general ...
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| SIMON BRETT Book Number: 84314 |
Published price: £9.99
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One of the undiscovered beauties of the English language, the Oxymoron is a 'figure of speech that juxtaposes elements that appear to be contradictory'. Fine examples would be Bitter Sweet, Defini...
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| COMPILED BY SAMMY LOOKER Book Number: 84315 |
Published price: £8.99
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"I am enclosing some chapters of one of my tales for your perusal. The various storylines make it a story within a story with further layers of narrative curling ever inwards like a nautilus shell....
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| QU LEI LEI Book Number: 84339 |
Published price: £12.95
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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Produced in association with the British Museum, Bibliophile has found this rare 2004 outsize softback. The earliest Chinese script was on animal bones and tortoiseshells from around the 13th to t...
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| DAVID CRYSTAL Book Number: 84346 |
Published price: $32.50
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How babies babble, words change meaning and languages live or die, we all understand why language works and we have to communicate to survive, but now a world authority on linguistic English shows ...
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| COMPILED BY ANDREA KIRK ASSAS Book Number: 84381 |
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St Francis of Assisi said "Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible." "Do not try to excuse your faults; try to correct them." "No one he...
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| PHIL MCNEILL Book Number: 84384 |
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Each day in the Daily Telegraph a different compiler sets the Cryptic and Quick Crosswords as a pair opposite one another on the same page, offering a great mix of styles. One thing to look out fo...
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| ALEX RAWLINGS Book Number: 83445 |
Published price: £13.99
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Each language you speak is part of your life story, defining who you are. Learning a new language is an extremely exciting, endlessly entertaining and stimulating challenge. Whether you are looki...
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| ROSEMARY SASSOON Book Number: 84510 |
Published price: £15
Bibliophile price: £3.25
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The exciting possibilities of creating letter forms for any number of craft projects, Christmas decorations, greetings cards, posters or practicing your calligraphic hand, you are going to be encha...
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| SARAH ROYAL & J. PANARESE Book Number: 84542 |
Published price: £6.99
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A mix 'n' match profanity generator, there are two sets of cards on a spiral-bound binding to flip at random and make you laugh at the ridiculous combinations like 'Fart' 'Monster' or 'Fart' 'Twist...
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| RICHARD WILLIAMS Book Number: 84645 |
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Since it was first established in 2006, Twitter has become something of a phenomenon in the explosion of popular social media networking sites. Get the lowdown on how it all started, how it works,...
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| EDIT. J. MCMORLAND HUNTER Book Number: 85080 |
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £6.00
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For christenings, weddings, funerals and any special occasion, or for words inside a greetings card, from Wordsworth to W. H. Auden, from Byron to A. A. Milne, along with Apache prayers and Irish b...
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