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This helpful how-to guide teaches kids what a question is, when to ask one, and how to form one. Friendly tips and pointers ("Keep it short!" "Show interest!") help kids keep their questions appropriate and on point. Above all, the book encourages readers to keep on asking questions--the beginning of learning about the world.

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An enlightening, etymological journey across continents, uncovering the history and origins of the places we live and travel to

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Victor Neumann traces the transition of European history, paying particular attention to the idealistic philosophies that have influenced the intellectual landscape and political discourse of European regions today.

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From Today programme presenter and national treasure John Humphrys, the bestselling cry in book form for better English and an expos of the political uses and abuses of language.

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From the author of the BBC Radio News house style guide comes a fascinating guide to the English language.

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Women as slang creators and users is perhaps the last, and very important, piece of the slang jigsaw. Women in slang is a pretty sorry story, but women and slang is an undiscovered territory, which this book explores, from fishwives and flappers to Mumsnet.

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This superbly well-informed - and also wonderfully entertaining - history of the English language answers all these questions, showing how the many strands of English (Standard English, dialect and slang among them) developed to create the richly-varied language of today.

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"A balanced attempt to understand the controversy over renaming a building on the campus of UC Berkeley"--

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Neither a straightforward dictionary of etymology nor a linear history of language, Word Routes is an entertaining alphabetical guide to the stories behind many everyday words.

A comprehensive survey of English as it is spoken throughout the world.

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The Arabic alphabet has a fascinating history, one that is entwined with the development of culture and society in the Middle East. This book traces the origins of the Arabic alphabet back to Aramaic, a descendant of Phoenecian, which itself gave rise to the Hebrew and Greek alphabets.

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This volume presents the work of leading specialists on the particular variety of French found in medieval Britain (Anglo-Norman), and also French in France itself. Other essays deal with the vernacular language of southern France, Occitan.

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These essays offer critiques of orthodox views on dialect and dialectology, and as such are designed both to complement standard introductory volumes on dialectology and to refine understanding of the term dialect.

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The fourth edition of a highly acclaimed Dictionary of Contemporary Slang this is the definitive and indispensible guide to the use of slang today

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Written so that the ordinary writer and speaker of English can readily see the manipulations of language, this reference points out the alarmingly verbal atrocities used today. It is arranged alphabetically, like a dictionary, providing a compendium of frequently abused words and suggested alternates.

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This text is a reference source for those concerned with the changing status and vitality of the Welsh language and other minority languages in Europe. It provides a framework and a factual context in which to set such issues as language planning and policy formulation at local and national levels.

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"Why are you learning Zulu" When Mark Sanders began studying the language, he was often asked this question. In Learning Zulu, Sanders places his own endeavors within a wider context to uncover how, in the past 150 years of South African history, Zulu became a battleground for issues of property, possession, and deprivation. Sanders combines eleme