Texting Dictionary by Collins Gem
$9.00 NZD
Category: Reference
Everyone texts now but many of us stick rigidly to spelling words out in full and using punctuation. What a waste of time and energy, not to mention strain on the finger joints! Collins Gem Texting Dictionary is just the book you need if you want to get hip with the digits and text using abbreviations a ...Show more
The Cat's Pyjamas : The Penguin Book of Cliches by Julia Cresswell
$28.00 NZD
Category: Reference
This is a fascinating, thematic exploration of cliches from as the actress said to the bishop to zero hour, explaining what they are and where they've come from. Julia Cresswell has taken her best-selling dictionary of cliches ('Sumptuous...A mine of information.' - "Guardian") back to the drawing boar ...Show more
The Dictionary of New Zealand English - A Dictionary of New Zealandisms on Historical Principles by H W Orsman (ed.)
$150.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: good-very good
The Dictionary of New Zealand English provides a unique historical record of New Zealand words and phrases from their earliest use to the present day. Its 6,000 main headword entries and 9,300 separate subentries provide fascinating insights into New Zealand's diverse linguistic heritage.The words New Z ...Show more
The Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms by Alan Spooner
$36.90 NZD
Category: Reference | Series: Oxford Paperback Reference S.
This dictionary provides an easy-to-use source of over 150,000 alternative and opposite words so the reader can improve wordpower and communication skills. There is also a Lexicon of Hard Words with interesting and unusual words as diverse as erubescence (blushing) and jumbal (sweet crisp cake).
The Encyclopedia of Unbelievable Facts by Jane Wilsher
$37.00 NZD
Category: Reference
Flex your fact muscles and test your trivia knowledge with the Encyclopaedia of Unbelievable Facts. Packed with 500 perplexing questions, this book is perfect for family quiz nights and impressing in the playground. Test your knowledge with 500 perplexing questions to bamboozle and delight trivia buffs ...Show more
The Funniest Thing You Never Said: The Ultimate Collection of Humorous Quotations by Rosemarie Jarski
$28.00 NZD
Category: Reference
Whether for the loo or bedside entertainment or as a work of reference or self-improvement The Funniest Thing You Never Said is the best humorous quote book there is - a one-stop shop. It is bigger and better than the competition and ordered not A-Z by who said the quote but by thematic categories compl ...Show more
The Godzone Dictionary - Of Favourite New Zealand Words and Phrases by Max Cryer
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
This concise A-Z dictionary, now updated in a new expanded edition, is a quick and easy reference to understanding the words and phrases that make the New Zealand language and speech patterns so different. Language expert Max Cryer not only provides helpful definitions for the various entries, but also ...Show more
The Godzone Dictionary of Favourite NZ Words and Phrases by Max Cryer
$30.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: very good
The Godzone Dictionary is a concise A-Z of the words and phrases that make our New Zealand language and speech patterns so distinctive and individual, from Aotearoa and Avondale spiders to Zambuck and Zespri. Slang words and expressions feature heavily, while one of the unique features of this book is t ...Show more
The Greeks Had a Word for it: Words You Never Knew You Can't Do Without by Andrew Taylor
$35.00 NZD
Category: Reference
Do you ever search in vain for exactly the right word? Perhaps you want to articulate the vague desire to be far away. Or you can't quite convey that odd urge to go outside and check to see if anyone is coming. Maybe you're struggling to express there being just the right amount of something - not too m ...Show more
The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes by John Gross (ed.)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Reference
An unrivalled collection of literary gossip and intimate sidelights on the lives of the authors. The dictionary defines an anecdote as 'a short account of an entertaining or interesting incident', and the anecdotes in this collection more than live up to that description. Many of them are funny, often e ...Show more
The Oxford Dictionary of New Zealandisms by Tony Deverson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: Very Good
Secondhand. Collects 6,500 distinctive New Zealand words and usages, and covers the full range of New Zealandisms, drawn from a wide variety of domains and areas of New Zealand life.