Showing By Hook or By Crook by David Crystal

Paperback. Pub Date :2008-04-01 Pages: 320 Language: English Publisher: Harper Perennial 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.David Crystal has been described (by the Times Higher Education Supplement) as a sort of latter day Dr Johnson. a populist linguist who has promoted the study of the English language in an academic and broadcasting career that has so far spanned 40 years and nearly 100 books.Now he has written an engaging travel book of more general appeal. Inspired by WG Sebalds The Rings of Saturn and by Bill Brysons books. he has combined personal reflections. historical allusions and traveller observations to create a mesmerising (and entertaining) narrative account of his encounters with the English...