GAT has kindly sent me the following snippet from The Week. It features DA’s word-obsessed book recommendations that would surely be of interest to many of you:
And we DA Trippers have also made a list of recommendations, a list that everyone is welcome to add to, as I will do forthwith: Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise Of The Music Of Language by Douglas Hofstadter is an ridiculously erudite book well worth reading, even if skimming over certain sections is well advised.
The remainder bookshop The Book Grocer (www.bookgrocer.com), in Canberra and Melbourne, is selling Pam Peters’ “The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage” for $20! It’s very good.
I recommend Nick Evans, ‘Dying Words: Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us’.