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an All New Journey Through Australia's Lost Language
Author: Hugh Lunn
This long anticipated follow-up to the hugely successful and popular LOST FOR WORDS revisits the rich, inventive and rogueish language Australians used to speak, before globalism stole it away. Hundreds of readers have r ... |
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Author: John Heilbron
Four hundred years ago, in 1610, Galileo published the Siderius nuncius, or Starry Messenger, a 'hurried little masterpiece' in John Heilbron's words. Presenting to the world his remarkable observations using the recentl ... |
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Frameworks, Status, Prospects
Author: Gabrielle Hogan-Brun & Stefan Wolff
Minority languages are part of Europe's shared cultural heritage and there is a broad consensus that it is important to protect and encourage linguistic and cultural diversity during the process of continuing European in ... |
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A Language History of the World
Author: Nicholas Ostler
An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history. The story of the world in the last five thousan ... |
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The Curious Origins of Common Words and Phrases
Author: Max Cryer & Max Cryer
Many bright minds have come up with expressions we now take for granted as part of the English language, and which we use freely in vernacular speech. But the originators of many of our most useful second-hand remarks go ... |
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