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Have you ever wondered why we talk about a handicap in sport, why boxing is so named, or whether a dumbbell ever rang? It was during the nineteenth century that hitherto local …

Das neue Buch von Bestseller-Autor Christoph Gutknecht. Schlamassel, Pustekuchen, Saure-Gurken-Zeit - etliche deutsche Begriffe und Redensarten stammen ursprünglich aus dem …

Part of the series on American English from 1781 to 1921, Volume VIII includes a guide to the phonetics of American English with the purpose to provide a rational method of …

'Greatly enjoyable' GUARDIAN'It is always exhilarating to read a book which says what so many of us think' SPECTATOR'Timely and lively' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Let us be very clear about …

"I geh heut no ins Kino!", sagt die Kuh zu den anderen Kühen und macht sich in Dirndl und Stöcklschuhen auf ihre spannende und abenteuerliche Reise in die Stadt. Unterwegs trifft …

This provocative volume investigates the origins of contemporary African American Vernacular English (AAVE), one of the oldest, yet unsolved, questions in sociolinguistics.

Part of the series on American English from 1781 to 1921, Volume VIII includes a guide to the phonetics of American English with the purpose to provide a rational method of …

The first study of its kind, Regional Variation in Written American English takes a corpus-based approach to map over one hundred grammatical alternation variables across the …

Es wird spannend!Der Onkel Franz, Innviertler Archetyp, wie wohl viele ihn kennen, hält ja eh viel aus. Muss er auch. Denn sein Erfinder, Klaus Ranzenberger, konfrontiert ihn nun …

Published in 1897, this two-volume work by Robert Seymour Conway (1864–1933), classical scholar and comparative philologist, later Hulme Professor of Latin at the University of …

As much a travel book as a linguistic study, this book goes beyond grammar and vocabulary; more importantly, this book is about the people of the world. On his travels Abley …