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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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Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon

by AITCHISON

ISBN 13: 9780631144427

Format: Paperback (288 pages)
Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
Published: 23 Jul 1987
Other Format: Paperback

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The Scots Dialect Dictionary

by Alexander Warrack

ISBN 13: 9781902407098

Format: Hardcover (672 pages)
Publisher: Waverley Books
Published: 05 Sep 2000
Other Format: Hardcover

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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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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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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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Pardon My English!

by Michael Munro

ISBN 13: 9780550102867

Format: Paperback (384 pages)
Publisher: Chambers
Published: 29 Jun 2007

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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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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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Chambers Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases

by

ISBN 13: 9780550183064

Format: Hardcover (336 pages)
Publisher: Chambers
Published: 31 Aug 1995
Other Format: Paperback

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