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Tony ThorneBook and Novel

Tony Thorne

Tony Thorne is Language and Innovation consultant and director of the New Language Archive at King's College, London. He broadcasts regularly on radio, including for the BBC, and has been a Hollywood script consultant and an EU adviser on language and communication.


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Jolly Wicked Actually: The Hundred Words That Make Us English
Tony Thorne
Another book on the English language but these are always so fascinating and interesting we can’t get enough of them! This one looks at the origins of words and phrases in English, how they help to make up our quirky...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2009
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