About Us
Contact Us
Privacy Policy
Cookie Usage
Add Your Store

More From Contributor

image missing
A Century Of The North
Wales Coast
£9.09
A selection of photographs that illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place on the North Wales coast over the last hundred years. It offers an insight into the daily lives & living conditions of local people & gives the reader glimpses & details of familiar places during a century of unprecedented change. ...
Archived Product
image missing
A Century Of The
Potteries
£6.99
A selection of photographs that illustrates the transformation that has taken place in The Potteries during 20th century. It offers an insight into the daily lives & living conditions of local people & gives the reader glimpses & details of familiar places during a century of change. It records the process of transformation. ...
Archived Product
image missing
A Century Of Thurrock
£6.99

Includes: photographs which illustrates the transformation that has taken place in Thurrock during the 20th century. This
...
Archived Product
A Century of Welsh Murders and Executions
A Century Of Welsh
Murders And Executions
£10.04
Brings together thirty-six murderous tales that shocked not only Wales but also made national headlines. This book



...
Archived Product
image missing
A Certain Age
£12.31
At a certain age, women gain a huge confidence about themselves because they realise that life's too short to waste. These six women are in their forties & each has a very different
- & sometimes surprising
- story to tell. This book contains six radio monologues in the form of tales of love, romance, friendship & family.

...
Archived Product
image missing
A Certain Age
£12.79
Features six tales of fidelity, pride, friendship & family: " The Father", The Son, The Husband, The Pedant, The Brother & " The Married Man". This title is written by the author of the bestsellers " Eats, Shoots & Leaves" & " Talk to the Hand". ...
Archived Product
image missing
A Certain Age
£55.80
A work of history & a series of moving reflections on memory, modernity, space & time, & the limitations of traditional historical narratives. It features the author's interviews with elderly intellectuals in & around Jakarta. It questions about how the past informs the present & how historical accounts are partial & incomplete. ...
Archived Product
image missing
A Certain Ambiguity
£9.56
Charged under an obscure blasphemy law in a small New Jersey town in 1919, Vijay Sahni is challenged by a skeptical judge to defend his belief that the certainty of mathematics can be extended to all human knowledge
- including religion. This book tells a story about what it means to face the extent
- & the limits
- of human knowledge.


...
Archived Product

A Certain 'Je Ne Sais Quoi'

English is enriched with many borrowings and influences from other languages. Aficionado, chutzpah, pro bono, hoi polloi, ketchup, nous, zeitgeist - we use these foreign words every day without thinking of their origins, but what do they actually mean? This book offers information for 'connoisseurs' (French) of the English language.
RIP - This product is no longer available on our network. It was last seen on 01.01.2015

This page now acts as a permanent archive for this product. Add more information using the comments box below to ensure it can still be found by future generations.

Use our search facility to see if it is available from an alternative contributor.
  • Availability: Out Of Stock
  • Supplier: Pickabook
  • SKU: 9781843173649
Availability: In Stock
£6.60
linguistics Humanities, Arts & Music > Linguistics
Description Reviews / Comments Add New

Product Description

English is enriched with many borrowings & influences from other languages. Aficionado, chutzpah, pro bono, hoi polloi, ketchup, nous, zeitgeist
- we use these foreign words every day without thinking of their origins, but what do they actually mean? This book offers information for 'connoisseurs' (French) of the English language.

Reviews/Comments

Add New

Intelligent Comparison

Oooops!
We couldn't find anything!
Perhaps this product's unique.... Or perhaps we are still looking for comparisons!
Click to bump this page and we'll hurry up.

Price History

Oooops!
We couldn't find any historical pricing!

Vouchers

No voucher codes found.
Do you know a voucher code for this product or supplier? Add it to Insights for others to use.

Facebook

Jargon Buster

Day - The time it takes a planet or other space objects to complete one rotation.
Language - the method of communication used in different areas. Humans and computers have many different languages.
Language - The way humans communicate either written and spoken.

Supplier Information

Pickabook
A UK based company founded in 1998. Offering exceptional value for money on a wide range of books including leather bound books and sticker books.

Over 5 million books in stock - all new
Discounts of upto 80 percent
Excellent customer service
Fast delivery
Page Updated: 2015-03-31 20:45:45

Community Generated Product Tags

Oh No! The productWIKI community hasn't generated any tags for this product yet!
Menu