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| Words Words Words | 
 enlarge | Author: David Crystal
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Category: Book
List Price: £8.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 24646
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0199210772
Dewey Decimal Number: 420
EAN: 9780199210770
ASIN: 0199210772
Publication Date: April 26, 2007
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 Brilliant Book July 6, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Really interesting with exactly the right amount of detail in all the right places. Words Words Words covers a really broad selection topics within the subject of English Language. It's got loads of interesting, quirky facts and discussion points about English whilst being a good read. David Crystal's passion for the subject shines thorough but it is clearly written, for anyone who speaks English so it's not just for people with a vested interest in this topic. If you speak English, you'll find this really interesting.
 A nice intro, but not quite meaty enough for me July 24, 2006
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
To write a book about words which is a page-turner would I suppose be a difficult task. So we can forgive David Crystal the fact this is no page-turner. It is, however, an interesting read. It's a well-laid out and accessible book, and I learnt some interesting facts from it. Personally, I'd have liked more coverage of the history of individual words - though the book does have an interesting chapter on the birth and evolution of words - but this is perhaps beyond the remit of such a book. The book is most suitable for someone who is new to the subject of linguistics (as I am), and would probably be too basic for anyone with any kind of existing knowledge of the field.
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