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A Fresh Rabbit: Dick 'n' Harry of Rhyming Slang

by Ray Puxley

ISBN 13: 9781861052216

Format: Paperback (134 pages)
Publisher: Robson Books Ltd
Published: 01 Oct 1998

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Fopdoodle and Salmagundi: Words and Meanings from Dr Samuel Johnson's Dictionary That Time Forgot

by Edward Allhusen,Edward Allhusen

ISBN 13: 9781873590638

Format: Hardcover (208 pages)
Publisher: Old House
Published: 01 Jun 2007

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Word Origins: The Hidden Histories of English Words from A to Z

by John Ayto

ISBN 13: 9780713674989

Format: Paperback (576 pages)
Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
Published: 04 Oct 2005

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Brewer's Dictionary of Twentieth Century Phrase and Fable (Cassell language reference)

by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

ISBN 13: 9780304349296

Format: Hardcover (672 pages)
Publisher: Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated
Published: 05 Dec 1996
Other Format: Hardcover, Paperback

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Language in the British Isles

by David Britain

ISBN 13: 9780521794886

Format: Illustrated (524 pages)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 23 Aug 2007

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Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where it's Heading

by Naomi S. Baron

ISBN 13: 9780415186865

Format: Paperback (332 pages)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 26 Apr 2001

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Language Death (Canto)

by David Crystal

ISBN 13: 9780521012713

Format: Paperback (210 pages)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 29 Apr 2002

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An Asperger Dictionary of Everyday Expressions

by Ian Stuart-Hamilton

ISBN 13: 9781843101529

Format: Paperback (320 pages)
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 05 Apr 2004
Other Format: Paperback

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Dictionary of Idioms: And Their Origins

by L. Flavell,R.H. Flavell

ISBN 13: 9781856263689

Format: Paperback (224 pages)
Publisher: Kyle Cathie
Published: 27 Apr 2000
Other Format: Paperback

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Talking Proper: The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol

by Lynda Mugglestone

ISBN 13: 9780199250622

Format: Illustrated (368 pages)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 20 Dec 2007

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A Language Suppressed: Attack on the Scots Language in the 18th Century

by Charles Jones

ISBN 13: 9780859764278

Format: Paperback (272 pages)
Publisher: John Donald Publishers Ltd
Published: 01 Jan 2001

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The English Language: A Historical Introduction (Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics)

by Charles Barber

ISBN 13: 9780521426220

Format: Paperback (311 pages)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 13 May 1993

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