Why Is This a Question? : Everything About the Origins and Oddities of Language You Never Thought to Ask LimitedStock ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781781257937

ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781781257937

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Patti Smith

Lynn and Niall

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Why Is This a Question? : Everything About the Origins and Oddities of Language You Never Thought to Ask LimitedStock ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781781257937Author(s): Jones, Paul Anthony Binding: Paperback, Date of Publication: 02 11 2023, Pagination: 320 pages, ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781783967025, Description: 'As entertaining as it is engrossing' John Banville'Enlightening, delightful' Arthur der Weduwen, author of The LibraryWhy don't eleven and twelve end in teen? The rest of our counting system sits in neatly arithmetical sets of ten, so why do these two rulebreakers seem so at odds with the numbers that