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Who Put the Butter in Butterfly?: And Other Fearless Investigations into Our Illogical Language

by David Feldman

ISBN 13: 9780060916619

Format: Paperback (224 pages)
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 31 Mar 1990

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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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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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The Politics of Discourse: The Standard Language Question in British Cultural Debates

by Tony Crowley

ISBN 13: 9780333454718

Format: Paperback (316 pages)
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 05 Jun 1989

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Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable

by Adrian Room

ISBN 13: 9780304353811

Format: Hardcover (832 pages)
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 02 Nov 2000

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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
Other Format: Paperback

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Pocket Scots Dictionary

by Iseabail Macleod,etc.

ISBN 13: 9780080365817

Format: Paperback (320 pages)
Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd
Published: 03 Nov 1988
Other Format: Paperback

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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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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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Words in Time: Social History of English Vocabulary (Language Library)

by Geoffrey Hughes

ISBN 13: 9780631158325

Format: Hardcover (256 pages)
Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
Published: 28 May 1988
Other Format: Paperback

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