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Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen

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Linguistic journey through a Comma Queen's Greek passion.

If you're smitten by words and their origins, or if you harbor a secret love affair with the intricacies of language, Mary Norris's "Greek to Me" could be a delightful escape. It's like taking a trip to Greece without leaving your armchair, accompanied by a guide whose enthusiasm for linguistics and Greek culture is as infectious as it is educational. For fellow grammar geeks and Hellenophiles, it's a must-read that combines travel, memoir, and etymology in one.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen

Regular price ₱886.05 ₱787.05 11% off
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ISBN: 9781324001270
Authors: Mary Norris
Date of Publication: 2019-04-02
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: History, Travel, Biographies & Memoirs
Goodreads rating: 3.62
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The Comma Queen returns with a buoyant book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea. In her New York Times bestseller Between You & Me, Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils and punctuation in The New Yorker’s celebrated copy department. In Greek to Me, she delivers another wise and funny paean to the art of self-expression, this time filtered through her greatest passion: all things Greek. Greek to Me is a charming account of Norris’s lifelong love affair with words and her solo adventures in the land of olive trees and ouzo. Along the way, Norris explains how the alphabet originated in Greece, makes the case for Athena as a feminist icon, goes searching for the fabled Baths of Aphrodite, and reveals the surprising ways Greek helped form English. Filled with Norris’s memorable encounters with Greek words, Greek gods, Greek wine—and more than a few Greek men—Greek to Me is the Comma Queen’s fresh take on Greece and the exotic yet strangely familiar language that so deeply influences our own.
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Linguistic journey through a Comma Queen's Greek passion.

If you're smitten by words and their origins, or if you harbor a secret love affair with the intricacies of language, Mary Norris's "Greek to Me" could be a delightful escape. It's like taking a trip to Greece without leaving your armchair, accompanied by a guide whose enthusiasm for linguistics and Greek culture is as infectious as it is educational. For fellow grammar geeks and Hellenophiles, it's a must-read that combines travel, memoir, and etymology in one.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.