wyszukanych pozycji: 12
Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain
ISBN: 9781473623897 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Learn how to decode the private languages that are swapped around us every day - amongst cabbies and paramedics, soap stars and comedians, cricketers and barristers - in Susie Dent's unique and witty guide to Britain's modern tribes.
Learn how to decode the private languages that are swapped around us every day - amongst cabbies and paramedics, soap stars and comedians, cricketers ...
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57,00 zł |
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (20th edition)
ISBN: 9781473676367 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 1600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Take the scenic route to knowledge.
Take the scenic route to knowledge.
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233,35 zł |
Words from the Heart: An Emotional Dictionary
ISBN: 9781529379686 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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67,37 zł |
Interesting Stories about Curious Words: From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings
ISBN: 9781399811682 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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67,37 zł |
Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment Every Day
ISBN: 9781529311488 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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57,00 zł |
How to Talk Like a Local: A National Phrasebook from the author of Word Perfect
ISBN: 9780099514763 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Would you be bewildered if someone described you as "radgy"? Do you know how to recognize a "tittamatorter"? And would you understand if someone called you a "culchie"? "How to Talk Like a Local" gathers together hundreds of words from all over the country and digs down to uncover their origins. From "dardledumdue," which means daydreamer in East Anglia, through "forkin robbins," the Yorkshire term for earwigs, to "clemt," a Lancashire word that means hungry, it investigates an astonishingly rich variety of regional expressions, and provides a fascinating insight into the history of the...
Would you be bewildered if someone described you as "radgy"? Do you know how to recognize a "tittamatorter"? And would you understand if someone calle...
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57,00 zł |
Interesting Stories about Curious Words: From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings
ISBN: 9781399811675 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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77,74 zł |
Guilty by Definition: The instant Sunday Times bestselling debut novel from Countdown's Susie Dent
ISBN: 9781804183946 / Twarda / 2024 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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88,12 zł |
Guilty by Definition
ISBN: 9781804183953 / Miękka / 2024 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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72,56 zł |
An Emotional Dictionary: Real Words for How You Feel, from Angst to Zwodder
ISBN: 9781529379679 / Twarda / 2023 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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88,12 zł |
What Made The Crocodile Cry?: 101 questions about the English language
ISBN: 9780199574155 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Why do good things cut the mustard? Who or what was the real Real McCoy? And why do we call false sentiment crocodile tears? Can crocodiles really cry?
In What Made the Crocodile Cry?, Susie Dent draws on her popular television segment on the curiosities of English to tackle these and many other fascinating puzzles. Writing with her customary charm and erudition, Dent offers a wonderfully readable and endlessly entertaining exploration of language, answering 101 of the most intriguing questions about the English language, from word origins and spelling to grammar and usage. Dent ranges... Why do good things cut the mustard? Who or what was the real Real McCoy? And why do we call false sentiment crocodile tears? Can crocodiles really cry...
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62,19 zł |
A Barrel of Monkeys: A Compendium of Collective Nouns for Animals
ISBN: 9781851244454 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. What should we call the wild animals we spot from our windows? A surfeit of skunks? A dray of squirrels? A patient watch of wildlife enthusiasts might even catch sight of a skulk of foxes or a scavenging sloth of bears. The practice of inventing collective nouns for animals is an ancient pastime which derives from medieval hunts, but the list has been augmented in every age--and it remains an entertaining pastime today. A Barrel of Monkeys brings together more than one hundred collective nouns for animals, from a bloat of hippopotamuses to a caravan of camels, a tower of giraffes,...
What should we call the wild animals we spot from our windows? A surfeit of skunks? A dray of squirrels? A patient watch of wildlife enthusiasts might...
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51,82 zł |