Pen Hanley

Tag: Argentine tango

  • Some favourite books I’ve read recently

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    Non-fiction By Hook or By Crook David Crystal.  Harper-Collins, 2007 Anything by David Crystal is wonderful – he writes erudite and funny books about the English language. This one has entertaining snippets such as the following. A best words competition in The Sunday Times in 1980 came up with: melody and velvet (tied in first…