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By Hook Or By Crook: A Journey In Search Of English

By Hook Or By Crook: A Journey In Search Of English by David Crystal


Authors
David Crystal
ISBN
9780007235575
Published
Released
15 / 03 / 2009
Binding
Paperback
Dimensions
129 x 198 x 20mm

A delightfully discursive, Bill Bryson-esque and personal journey through the groves and the thickets of the English language, by our foremost scholar of the history and structure of the English language.
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