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University of Chicago Press, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 100x32x152. First edition. Faint odor of smoke. Jacket spine head and spine base bumped. Pages lightly toned. 2000 Hard Cover. xi, 580 pp. "From Homer ("winged words") to Robert Burns ("Beware a tongue that's smoothly hung") to Rudyard Kipling ("Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind"), writers from all over the world have put pen to paper on the inexhaustible topic of language. Yet surprisingly, their writings on the subject have never been gathered in a single volume. In Words on Words, David and Hilary Crystal have collected nearly 5,000 quotations about language and all its intriguing aspects: speaking, reading, writing, translation, verbosity, usage, slang, and more. As the stock-in-trade of so many professionsâorators, media personalities, writers, and countless othersâlanguage's appeal as a subject is extraordinarily…
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- Author David Crystal (Editor); Hilary Crystal (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 587
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
- Date 2000-10
- ISBN 9780226122014 / 0226122018
- Weight 2.23 lbs (1.01 kg)
- Dimensions 9.5 x 6.25 x 2 in (24.13 x 15.88 x 5.08 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Language and languages
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00039221
- Dewey Decimal Code 400
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