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A Treatise on the Provincial Dialect of Scotland

by Sylvester Douglas

ISBN 13: 9780748603008

Format: Hardcover (278 pages)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 24 Oct 1991

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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

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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

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Only in Canada You Say: A Treasury of Canadian Language

by Katherine Barber

ISBN 13: 9780195429848

Format: Paperback (288 pages)
Publisher: OUP Canada
Published: 01 May 2008

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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

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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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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

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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

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From Bonbon to Cha-cha: Oxford Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases (Oxford Paperback Reference)

by Andrew Delahunty

ISBN 13: 9780199543694

Format: Hardcover (384 pages)
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 23 Oct 2008

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Chambers Dictionary of First Names

by Julia Cresswell

ISBN 13: 9780550104298

Format: Paperback (480 pages)
Publisher: Chambers Harrap
Published: 26 Jun 2009
Other Format: Hardcover

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Dictionary for Our Time

by Mike Barfield,Steven Appleby

ISBN 13: 9781901170009

Format: Illustrated (95 pages)
Publisher: Oldie Publications Ltd
Published: 25 Oct 1996

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Cassell Everyday Phrases: Their Origins and Meanings

by Neil Ewart

ISBN 13: 9780304340644

Format: Hardcover (160 pages)
Publisher: Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated
Published: 07 Feb 1991
Other Format: Paperback

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