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Shoot the Puppy: A Survival Guide to the Curious Jargon of Modern Life

by Tony Thorne

ISBN 13: 9780141027067

Format: Paperback (368 pages)
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 01 Nov 2007
Other Format: Hardcover

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An Atlas of English Dialects

by Clive Upton,J. D. A. Widdowson

ISBN 13: 9780198692744

Format: Paperback (188 pages)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 22 Aug 1996

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The Story of English

by Robert McCrum, William Cran, Robert MacNeil

ISBN 13: 9780571149087

Format: Paperback (384 pages)
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 14 Sep 1987
Other Format: Hardcover, Paperback

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The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology (Wordsworth Reference)

by Walter W. Skeat,Walter W. Skeat

ISBN 13: 9781853263118

Format: Paperback (656 pages)
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Published: 25 Nov 1993

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A History of the English Language

by Albert C. Baugh,Thomas Cable,Thomas Cable

ISBN 13: 9780415050739

Format: Paperback (464 pages)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 01 Dec 1990
Other Format: Hardcover, 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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Great Kiwi Slang

by Sonya Plowman

ISBN 13: 9781865036670

Format: Paperback
Publisher: The Five Mile Press

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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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Oxford Take Off in Latin American Spanish

by Rosa Maria Martin

ISBN 13: 9780198603047

Format: Paperback (256 pages)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 25 May 2000

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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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Scottish Forenames

by Donald Whyte

ISBN 13: 9781841583983

Format: Paperback (216 pages)
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Published: 18 Mar 2005
Other Format: Paperback

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Where Words Come from: A Dictionary of Word Origins

by Fred Sedgwick

ISBN 13: 9781847062741

Format: Illustrated (222 pages)
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 21 May 2009

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