Non-fiction - Language and humour - Christchurch City Libraries

Have you always wanted to understand what a subjunctive is? Or wished you could unravel the mystery of affect vs effect? Rest assured; you don’t have to trawl through a table of grammar to find out. Uncover the origins of language, learn the reasons behind baffling grammatical rules, and come away both informed and entertained with these language experts. If you like playing with language, enjoy a well constructed sentence, take joy in the multitudes of meaning of words and their combinations, like a good pun, or are fascinated by the origin of words and their meanings; then this is a list for you. A Christchurch City Libraries list.