Buy Used and New Historical & Comparative Linguistics Books

Brewers Dictionary of Names: People & Places & Things (Hutchinson reference classics)

by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

ISBN 13: 9781859863237

Format: Paperback (640 pages)
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 04 Nov 1999

Save for later

Bumper Book of Simplex Crosswords: From The Irish Times

by Mary O'Brien

ISBN 13: 9780717143849

Format: Paperback (352 pages)
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Published: 01 Apr 2008

Save for later

All Gong and No Dinner: 1001 Homely Phrases and Curious Domestic Sayings

by Nigel Rees

ISBN 13: 9780007249350

Format: Hardcover (400 pages)
Publisher: Collins
Published: 03 Sep 2007

Save for later

Dictionary of Word Origins

by L. Flavell,R.H. Flavell

ISBN 13: 9781856265645

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

Save for later

Altered English: Surprising Meanings of Familiar Words

by Jeffrey Kacirk

ISBN 13: 9780764920196

Format: Hardcover (240 pages)
Publisher: Pomegranate Communications Inc,US
Published: Jan 2002

Save for later

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

Save for later

The Secret Life of The English Language: Buttering Parsnips and Twocking Chavs

by Martin H. Manser,David Pickering

ISBN 13: 9780753824177

Format: Paperback (272 pages)
Publisher: W&N
Published: 04 Sep 2008

Save for later

Gallimaufry: A hodgepodge of our vanishing vocabulary

by Michael Quinion

ISBN 13: 9780198610625

Format: Hardcover (288 pages)
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 14 Sep 2006

Save for later

The Wordsworth Dictionary of Eponyms (Wordsworth Reference)

by Martin H. Manser

ISBN 13: 9781853263736

Format: Paperback (800 pages)
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Published: 01 Apr 1996
Other Format: Paperback

Save for later

Unspeak

by Steven Poole

ISBN 13: 9780316731003

Format: Hardcover (288 pages)
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 16 Feb 2006
Other Format: Paperback

Save for later

Much Ado About English: Up and Down the Bizarre Byways of a Fascinating Language

by Richard Watson Todd

ISBN 13: 9781857883725

Format: Hardcover (160 pages)
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Published: 12 Oct 2006

Save for later

Why Do We Say That?

by Anonymous

ISBN 13: 9780572016548

Format: Paperback (256 pages)
Publisher: W Foulsham & Co Ltd
Published: 19 Jun 1991

Save for later