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|author= Laurence Browne

|title= The Many Faces of Coincidence

|rating= 3.5

|genre= Popular Science

|summary= Browne does not mislead with this choice of title; he does without a doubt explore the many faces of coincidence.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845409159</amazonuk>

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|author=Simon Jenkins

So goes the description of the men, the ''ghosts,'' at the end of the first day of the Somme. July 1 2016 will mark 100 years since this most bloody of battles took place. It was supposed to be the optimistic 'Big Push' that would end the Great War, but by sunset of the first day the British casualties numbered 57,470. The battle would rage until November that year, with the total number of casualties on all sides exceeding one million.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753555476</amazonuk>

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~~|author=David Crystal~~

~~|title=The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation~~

~~|rating=5~~

~~|genre=Reference~~

|summary=Language changes, not only in the way that it's written, but also in the way that it's ''pronounced''. I've seen changes over my lifetime and even more substantial changes have occurred in the four hundred years since Shakespeare died. For someone watching or reading a play the differences are not usually material: we can generally understand what is being said, but occasionally we're going to miss jokes which rely on a certain pronunciation, or the fine nuances of what is being said. What's required is a dictionary of the original pronunciation and that's exactly what David Crystal has provided. I'm only surprised that it's taken so long for such a book to appear.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199668426</amazonuk>~~

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