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Unlocking the English Language

by R.W. Burchfield

ISBN 13: 9780571141234

Format: Hardcover (218 pages)
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 02 Oct 1989
Other Format: Hardcover, Paperback

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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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Talking for Britain: A Journey Through the Nation's Dialects

by Simon Elmes

ISBN 13: 9780140515626

Format: Hardcover (352 pages)
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 22 Aug 2005
Other Format: Paperback

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Changing English

by David Graddol,Dick Leith,Joan Swann,Martin Rhys,Julia Gillen

ISBN 13: 9780415376792

Format: Illustrated (304 pages)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 28 Nov 2006

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From Old English to Standard English (Studies in English Language)

by Dennis Freeborn

ISBN 13: 9780333691557

Format: Paperback (504 pages)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 30 Jun 1998
Other Format: Paperback

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Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin

by Nicholas Ostler

ISBN 13: 9780007343065

Format: Paperback (352 pages)
Publisher: HarperPress
Published: 29 Oct 2009

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Twentieth Century Words

by John Ayto,John Ayto

ISBN 13: 9780198602309

Format: Hardcover (640 pages)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 12 Aug 1999

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Bloomers, Biros and Wellington Boots: How the Names Became the Words

by ANDREW SHOLL

ISBN 13: 9781854796424

Format: Hardcover (176 pages)
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
Published: 23 Aug 1996

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Wordgloss: A Cultural Lexicon

by John Banville, Jim O'Donnell

ISBN 13: 9781843510734

Format: Paperback (336 pages)
Publisher: The Lilliput Press Ltd
Published: Oct 2005

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The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang

by John Ayto, John Simpson

ISBN 13: 9780198661818

Format: Hardcover (308 pages)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 29 Oct 1992
Other Format: Paperback

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The Oxford Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases (Oxford Paperback Reference)

by Jennifer Speake

ISBN 13: 9780192801128

Format: Paperback (524 pages)
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Published: 17 Aug 2000

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A New Dictionary of Eponyms (Oxford Paperback Reference)

by Morton S. Freeman

ISBN 13: 9780195093544

Format: Paperback (304 pages)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 05 Mar 1998

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