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The Rosetta Stone

by Carol Andrews

ISBN 13: 9780714109312

Format: Paperback (32 pages)
Publisher: British Museum Press
Published: Nov 1981

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The Real McCoy: The True Stories Behind Our Everyday Phrases

by Georgia Hole

ISBN 13: 9780192806116

Format: Illustrated (208 pages)
Publisher: OUP UK
Published: 01 Oct 2005

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Altered English: Surprising Meanings of Familiar Words

by Jeffrey Kacirk

ISBN 13: 9780764920196

Format: Hardcover (240 pages)
Publisher: Pomegranate Communications Inc,US
Published: Jan 2002

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Dictionary of Proverbs

by Linda Flavell,Roger H. Flavell

ISBN 13: 9781856263900

Format: Paperback (273 pages)
Publisher: Kyle Cathie
Published: 30 Sep 2000
Other Format: Paperback

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Gallimaufry: A hodgepodge of our vanishing vocabulary

by Michael Quinion

ISBN 13: 9780198610625

Format: Hardcover (288 pages)
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 14 Sep 2006

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Cheers Me Boodies! (Local Dialect)

by John Germon

ISBN 13: 9781846741203

Format: Illustrated (80 pages)
Publisher: Countryside Books
Published: 16 Oct 2008

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Euphemisms

by John Ayto

ISBN 13: 9780747512943

Format: Hardcover (352 pages)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 02 Sep 1993

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Dinkum Aussie Rhyming Slang

by John Meredith

ISBN 13: 9780864173331

Format: Hardcover (62 pages)
Publisher: Kangaroo Press Pty.Ltd
Published: Dec 1991

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Gobbledygook: How Cliches, Sludge, and Management-Speak are Strangling Our Public Language

by Don Watson

ISBN 13: 9781843543565

Format: Hardcover (200 pages)
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 02 Sep 2004
Other Format: Paperback

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Made in America

by Bill Bryson,Bruce McCall

ISBN 13: 9780749397395

Format: Paperback (496 pages)
Publisher: Minerva
Published: 03 Jul 1995
Other Format: Hardcover, Paperback

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The Mouthful Of Air

by Anthony Burgess

ISBN 13: 9780099224013

Format: Paperback (368 pages)
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 16 Sep 1993
Other Format: hardcover

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The Wordsworth Dictionary of the American West

by Winfred Blevins

ISBN 13: 9781853263569

Format: Paperback (266 pages)
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd (Ware)
Published: Oct 1995

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