Grammar list 38

The Little Book of Emoji Insults

by Ebury Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018

If you can't say something nice... say it in emoji. Shock your friends and family with this brilliantly offensive collection of emoji put-downs and comebacks. With this handy guide, the endless potential for a punishing emoji burn will be opened to you like never before – far beyond...

Plain Words

by Rebecca Gowers, Ernest Gowers
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014

'Be short, be simple, be human.' When Sir Ernest Gowers first wrote Plain Words, it was intended simply as a guide to the proper use of English for the Civil Service. Within a year, however, its humour, charm and authority had made it a bestseller. Since then it has never been out of print. Six...

Script and Scribble

The Rise and Fall of Handwriting

by Kitty Burns Florey
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013

"A witty and readable (and fetchingly illustrated and glossed) excursion through the history of handwriting." —The Wall Street Journal **Let a self-confessed "penmanship nut" take you on a tour of the strange and beautiful world of handwriting. ** Since her Catholic...

Gervase Phinns Mangled English

A lighthearted look at the mishandling of the English language by the man with the funny name

by Gervase Phinn
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013

Sometimes what we say and write can lead to a great deal of misunderstanding and unintentional humour, as bestselling author and former school inspector Gervase Phinn shows in his book 'Gervase Phinn's Mangled English', a humorous anthology of the mistakes, misprints, malapropisms and misunderstandings...

The African Svelte

Ingenious Misspellings That Make Surprising Sense

by Daniel Menaker
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016

“For language lovers, this book, with all its verbal tangles and wit, is sure to, in its own words, ‘pass mustard’” (Poets & Writers). Inspired by Daniel Menaker’s tenure at the New Yorker, this collection of comical, revelatory errors foraged from the wilds of everyday English comes...

La grammatica fondamentale

Scrivere bene 1

by Laila Cresta
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 9, 2014

Scrittura creativa - manuale (82 pagine) - L’italiano è una lingua complessa e crea non pochi dubbi ortografici, grammaticali e sintattici. Per chi scrive può essere un problema: occorre quindi basarci su un codice comune per far capire la nostra lingua a chi legge. Questo codice comune è la...

The Greeks Had a Word For It

Words You Never Knew You Can't Do Without

by Andrew Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015

Do you ever search in vain for exactly the right word? Perhaps you want to articulate the vague desire to be far away. Or you can’t quite convey that odd urge to go outside and check to see if anyone is coming. Maybe you’re struggling to express there being just the right amount of something –...

Gramática inglesa para dummies

by Geraldine Woods
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 24, 2012

¿Necesitas mejorar tu nivel de inglés para acceder a un puesto de trabajo más cualificado o bien para sacar buena nota en alguna prueba o examen? Entonces estás de enhorabuena, porque has encontrado al compañero perfecto para acompañarte a lo largo de este viaje. Este libro, escrito como...