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Thank you! The title doesn't put me off. I will definitely check it out. The review in The Guardian is intriguing. And even if it were a grammar book, Finnish grammar is amazing... conjugating nouns? Really! But I love the way they name things exactly what they are and don't get fancy (e.g. not "dictionary" but rather "word book.")
That's great, Dorothy. It's a mystery novel!
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Thank you! The title doesn't put me off. I will definitely check it out. The review in The Guardian is intriguing. And even if it were a grammar book, Finnish grammar is amazing... conjugating nouns? Really! But I love the way they name things exactly what they are and don't get fancy (e.g. not "dictionary" but rather "word book.")
That's great, Dorothy. It's a mystery novel!
You might like to try Diego Marani's New Finnish Grammar. Dorothy, don't be put off by the title. It's just what you're after, I'd say.
Greg