By Hook Or By Crook: A Journey in Search of English

By Hook Or By Crook: A Journey in Search of English
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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 W. G. Sebald's ‘The Rings of Saturn’ and by Bill Bryson's 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 language and its speakers throughout the world – from Bangor to Bombay and from Stratford to San Francisco.‘By Hook or by Crook’ is an attempt to capture the exploratory, seductive, teasing, tantalising nature of language study. As such, it will appeal to the ever-growing market who like to be entertained as well as instructed.

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David Crystal. By Hook Or By Crook: A Journey in Search of English

BY HOOK OR BY CROOK

Contents

Preface

By Hook or by Crook

Making a Beeline

We Want Information

TOLLS TO BE TAKEN AT THIS GATE

Where are You From?

Good Evening, Each

Book-Browser Syndrome

Now Godiva was a Lady

The Robot’s not Working

Who was Leonard Slye?

Shall We Shog?

A Rash of Dermatologists

A Wheelbarrow Called Wilberforce

How do You Like Your Eggs?

My Husband is Without

I’m Jack

ON THE WAY

Index of Places

Index of People and Characters

Index of Topics

Copyright

About the Publisher

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For Hilary, who did most of the driving

1 By Hook or by Crook: GAERWEN

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He said the word with a long oo, asin croon.

I had to confess I didn’t. My definition of crook would be a stick with one end bent into a hooked sort of shape. I was vague about why. The linguist in me suggested a link with by hook or by crook, but I couldn’t immediately think of a good reason why this phrase should have come into existence.

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