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By Hook or by Crook

David Crystal
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Pages
320
Year
2008
Language
English
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers

About

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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