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A Certain "Je Ne Sais Quoi": The Origin of Foreign Words Used in English

by Chloe Rhodes

ISBN 13: 9781606520574

Format: Hardcover (176 pages)
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
Published: 04 Mar 2010

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The Mensa Book of Words, Word Games, Puzzles and Oddities (Perennial library)

by F.A. Salny

ISBN 13: 9780060962081

Format: Paperback (160 pages)
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Published: May 1988

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Cassell's Foreign Words and Phrases

by Adrian Room

ISBN 13: 9780304350087

Format: Hardcover (416 pages)
Publisher: Orion
Published: 13 Jul 2000

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Origin of English Place-names

by P. H. Reaney

ISBN 13: 9780710020109

Format: Hardcover (288 pages)
Publisher: Law Book Co of Australasia
Published: 01 Dec 1960
Other Format: Paperback

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A Dictionary of English Place-names

by A. D. Mills

ISBN 13: 9780198691563

Format: Hardcover (421 pages)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 30 Nov 1991
Other Format: Paperback

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Dictionary of Proverbs and Their Origins

by Linda Flavell,Roger H. Flavell

ISBN 13: 9781856265638

Format: Paperback (288 pages)
Publisher: Kyle Cathie
Published: 01 Jul 2004
Other Format: Paperback

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The Oxford Dictionary of New Words

by Sara Tulloch, Elizabeth Knowles, Julia Elliott

ISBN 13: 9780198602354

Format: Paperback (366 pages)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 01 Feb 1999
Other Format: Hardcover

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Dictionary of Word Origins

by L. Flavell,R.H. Flavell,R.H. Flavell

ISBN 13: 9781856261654

Format: Hardcover (288 pages)
Publisher: Kyle Books
Published: 30 Jun 1995
Other Format: Paperback

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The Alphabet

by David Sacks

ISBN 13: 9780091795061

Format: Hardcover (416 pages)
Publisher: Hutchinson
Published: 06 Nov 2003
Other Format: Paperback

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Big Book of Rhyming Slang (Big Books)

by Jonathon Green

ISBN 13: 9780304363865

Format: Paperback (480 pages)
Publisher: W&N
Published: 12 Sep 2002

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Dictionary of Contemporary Slang

by Tony Thorne

ISBN 13: 9780747545941

Format: Paperback (448 pages)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 27 Sep 1999
Other Format: Hardcover

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More of Why Do We Say That

by Graham Donaldson, Maris Ross

ISBN 13: 9780715394441

Format: Paperback (96 pages)
Publisher: David & Charles PLC
Published: Nov 1989

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