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Welcome to Europe as you've never known it before, seen through the peculiarities of its languages and dialects. Combining linguistics and cultural history, Gaston Dorren takes us …

LEARN SPANISH THE D!RTY WAY! Classroom workbooks teach conjugation with lame verbs--I walk, you walk, he walks. Eff that. Wouldn't you rather be learning I hook up, you hook up, …

· When they mistime a beat drop in the car· When their toenail scrapes you in bed· When they sit at a bar stool and their feet hang awkwardly· When they run …

The surely soon-to-be million-copy bestselling sort-of inspirational parody of the actual million-copy-selling bestseller by Charlie Mackesy. …

The must-have joke collection from the Instagram sensation @DadSaysJokesQ: How can you tell a pig is hot? A: It's bacon. The iconic Instagram page @DadSaysJokes returns with a …

Every family has one. Every WhatsApp group. Every office. You know the type – the lane-hogger, the queue-jumper, the clueless loudmouth who somehow thinks they’re the normal one. …

Doublespeak is the language of non-responsibility, carefully constructed to appear to communicate when it fact it doesn't. In this lively and eye-opening expose, originally …

At several junctures in his career, Dante paused to consider what it meant to be a writer. The questions he posed were both simple and wide-ranging: How does language, in …

Pedantic about punctuation or scrupulous about spelling? You'll love this hilarious and definitive guide to 21st century language from grammar-guru Gyles Brandreth'Brilliant, …

GET D!RTYNext time you're traveling or just chattin' in Japanese with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, …

This volume presents selected contributions to an annual symposium on metaphor and metonymy held at the English Department of Heidelberg University. It brings together papers by …