By Hook Or By Crook by David Crystal

By Hook Or By Crook by David Crystal

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.

‘Every page of Crystal’s book contains some linguistic curiosity or flight of fancyHe should go walkie-talkie more often. Another 100 books of this kind would not be too many.’ Financial Times

‘[An] excellent, discursive new book [by] one of England's greatest living language commentators…Crystal's accessible and lively style belies his academic rigour.’ The New Statesman

‘Crystal proves an entertaining companion…It is pleasant to ramble with him along the byways of language.’ The Tablet

'[Crystal] is more than just the Dr Johnson of our age, a linguistic expert who never takes a day off from considering language in all its aspects, and even hears sheep bleat in a Welsh accent.' The Sunday Herald

'”By Hook or By Crook” is autobiographical-whimsical-quizzical-oddsandendsical.' Times Higher Education Supplement

David Crystal has published over 90 books on the subject of the English language, including two encyclopaedias, 'The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Language' and The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English Language'. His book, 'The Stories of English' (2004) was a bestseller for Penguin. He has lectured in linguistics all his life, first at Bangor, then at Reading and is now Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales. He has also been a consultant, contributor or presenter on many radio and TV series (including 'The Story of English').

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ISBN 13	9780007235582
ISBN 10	0007235585
Title	By Hook Or By Crook
Author	David Crystal
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2007-05-01
Number of pages	336
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