Collins English Dictionary Paperback Edition - 8th Edition by Collins Dictionaries
$22.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries, Language & Reference | Series: Collins Essential Ser.
The home of trusted English dictionaries and thesauruses for everyday language use. The perfect dictionary reference with 200,000 words and phrases for daily use. Language usage notes help you choose the right word and the easy-to-use layout allows you to find what you're looking for quickly and easily. ...Show more
Scrabble Gem Dictionary: The Words to Play on the Go [Sixth Edition] by Collins Scrabble
$16.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries, Language & Reference | Series: Collins Gem Ser.
Settle family disputes with a Scrabble dictionary!The perfect companion for family Scrabble games. This compact, easy-to-use, paperback contains valid words from 2-7 letters in length and gives short, succinct definitions to help players use the best words for their game.The short definitions, given for ...Show more
Maori Made Easy Workbook 3/Kete 3 by Scotty Morrison
$25.00 NZD
Category: Dictionaries, Language & Reference
The accessible guide to learning the Maori language, no matter your knowledge level. Fun, user-friendly and relevant to modern readers, Scotty Morrison's Maori Made Easy workbook series is the ultimate resource for anyone wanting to learn the basics of the Maori language. While dictionaries list words a ...Show more
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: The Classic First Edition by H.W. Fowler
$59.99 NZD
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Category: Dictionaries, Language & Reference | Series: Oxford World's Classics
No book had more influence on twentieth-century attitudes to the English language in Britain than Henry Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage. It rapidly became the standard work of reference for the correct use of English in terms of choice of words, grammar, and style. Much loved for his firm ...Show more
A Modern Māori Picture Dictionary : He Papakupu Whakaahua mo te Reo Maori o Naianei by Katerina Mataira (ed)
$47.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries, Language & Reference | Series: Nz Dictionaries/Thesauruses/Reference
This dictionary supplements the Oxford Māori Picture Dictionary with additional words and their Māori equivalents. Some of the words in the Oxford Māori Picture Dictionary appear again in this dictionary, but alternative translations are offered, not to invalidate the translations in the Oxford Māori Pi ...Show more
Collins English Dictionary by Collins UK Staff; Mark Forsyth (Introduction by)
$99.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries, Language & Reference
The largest single-volume dictionary in print celebrates the extraordinary breadth and changing nature of world English, with more than 100,000 entries and definitions added, and a total of 722,000 words, meanings, and phrases The dictionary is drawn from the Collins Corpus, the largest word-gathering d ...Show more
Make Grammar Great Again: Crimes Against the English Language in 140 Characters by Meredith Forrester
$18.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries, Language & Reference
It’s hard to address all of Donald Trump’s mistakes in 140 characters, but Meredith Forrester is doing her best. Since the announcement of the Presidential election in November 2016, Meredith has been using the power of grammar to copyedit the most powerful man in the world down to size. ‘I realised tha ...Show more
The Godzone Dictionary - Of Favourite New Zealand Words and Phrases by Max Cryer
$29.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries, Language & Reference | 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
Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
$80.00 NZD
Category: Dictionaries, Language & Reference
The much-loved original thesaurus, now in a handsome clothbound hardback edition: a treat for writers, readers, editors, linguists, scholars, students, bookworms, eggheads, philologists, bibliophiles, litterateurs and wordsmiths the world over. Roget's Thesaurus is the world's most famous and trusted ...Show more
Fierce Bad Rabbits: The Tales Behind Children's Picture Books by Clare Pollard
$26.00 NZD
Category: Dictionaries, Language & Reference
What is The Tiger Who Came to Tea really about? How is Meg and Mog related to Polish embroidery? And why does death in picture books involve being eaten? Fierce Bad Rabbits explores the stories behind our favourite picture books, weaving in tales of Clare Pollard's childhood reading and her re-discovery ...Show more
The Madman's Library: The Greatest Curiosities of Literature by Edward Brooke-Hitching
$52.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries, Language & Reference
From the author of the critically acclaimed and globally successful The Phantom Atlas, The Golden Atlas and The Sky Atlas comes a stunning new work. The Madman's Library is a unique, beautifully illustrated journey through the entire history of literature, delving into its darkest territories to hunt do ...Show more