By Hook or by Crook
Subtitle: A Journey in Search of English
By: David Crystal.
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Woodstock, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781590200612
Subjects: English language -- Dialects -- Great Britain; English language -- Variation -- Great Britain; English language -- Great Britain
Description: Combines personal reflections, historical allusions, and traveler's observations about the author's encounters with language and its users throughout the English-speaking world.
Notes: Originally published: London : HarperPress, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: By hook or by crook : Gaerwen; title: Making a beeline : Menai; title: We want information : Portmeiron; title: Where are you from? : Welshpool; title: Good evening, each : Birmingham; title: Book-browser syndrome : Hay; title: Now Godiva was a lady : Leominster; title: The robot's not working : Risbury; title: Who was Leonard Slye? : Stratford; title: Shall we shog? : Kolkata; title: A rash of dermatologists : Arden; title: A wheelbarrow called Wilberforce : Lichfield; title: How do you like your eggs? : San Francisco; title: My husband is without : Lodz; title: I'm Jack : Llangollen.