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    Making Sense: The Glamorous Story of English Grammar

    David Crystal (University of Wales Bangor)

    In Making Sense, David Crystal confronts the foe of many: grammar. Once taught relentlessly to all students in the English-speaking world, grammar disappeared from most school curricula, so that terms…

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    Making Sense: The Glamorous Story of English Grammar

    David Crystal (University of Wales Bangor)

    In Making Sense, David Crystal confronts the foe of many: grammar. Once taught relentlessly to all students in the English-speaking world, grammar disappeared from most school curricula, so that terms…

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    Txtng: The Gr8 Db8

    David Crystal (University of Wales, Bangor)

    Does txtng spell the end of literacy? David Crystal looks at the evidence, investigating how txtng began, what it is, why it’s used, and how it works. Txtng: The Gr8…

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    Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language

    David Crystal (University of Wales, Bangor)

    The King James Bible has contributed more to English than any other source. In this enlightening book David Crystal asks why. He looks at how its words have been given…

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    Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language

    David Crystal (University of Wales, Bangor)

    The King James Bible has contributed more to English than any other source. In this enlightening book David Crystal asks why. He looks at how its words have been given…

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    Pronouncing Shakespeare: The Globe Experiment

    David Crystal (University of Wales, Bangor)

    How did Shakespeare’s plays sound when they were originally performed? How can we know, and could the original pronunciation ever be recreated? David Crystal recounts and reflects on Shakespeare’s Globe’s…

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    The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language

    David Crystal (University of Wales, Bangor)

    An essential text for a new generation of twenty-first-century English language enthusiasts, its dual purpose as both a reference and textbook will appeal to English language lecturers and students as…

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    The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language

    David Crystal (University of Wales, Bangor)

    This third edition incorporates the major developments in language study since the mid 1990s. It includes major new sections on electronic communication and language death. All statistics and maps have…

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    Language and the Internet

    David Crystal (University of Wales, Bangor)

    In recent years, the Internet has come to dominate our lives. Covering a range of genres, including e-mail, chat, and the Web, David Crystal reveals how the Internet is radically…

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    Words in Time and Place: Exploring Language Through the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary

    David Crystal (Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor)

    How has the English language developed over time? How have words entered the English language, or changed their meaning? David Crystal takes us on a wonderful tour through the origins…

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    The Fight for English: How language pundits ate, shot, and left

    David Crystal (Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor)

    This is the story of the battles both past and present surrounding English usage. So many of us are made to feel ashamed of how we use our language, but…

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    The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation

    David Crystal (Honorary Professor of Linguistics, Honorary Professor of Linguistics, University of Wales, Bangor)

    This dictionary is the first comprehensive description of Shakespearean original pronunication (OP), enabling practitioners to deal with any queries about the pronunciation of individual words. It includes all the words…

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