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Codebreaker in the Far East: How Britain cracked Japan's top secret military codes

by Alan Stripp

ISBN 13: 9780192853165

Format: Paperback (218 pages)
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Published: 01 Jun 1995

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Cassell Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins

by Nigel Rees

ISBN 13: 9780304344222

Format: Paperback (224 pages)
Publisher: Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated
Published: 18 Aug 1994

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The Oxford Dictionary of Rhyming Slang (Oxford Paperback Reference)

by N/A

ISBN 13: 9780198607519

Format: Paperback (336 pages)
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 09 Oct 2003
Other Format: Hardcover

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What Made The Crocodile Cry?: 101 questions about the English language

by Susie Dent

ISBN 13: 9780199574155

Format: Illustrated (159 pages)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
Published: 13 Dec 2009

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Swearing: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths and Profanity in English

by Geoffrey Hughes

ISBN 13: 9780140267075

Format: Paperback (304 pages)
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 26 Mar 1998

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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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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

by Adrian Room

ISBN 13: 9780304350964

Format: Hardcover (1326 pages)
Publisher: Cassell
Published: 21 Oct 1999
Other Format: Hardcover, paperback, Paperback

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The Oxford Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases

by Jennifer Speake

ISBN 13: 9780198631590

Format: Hardcover (448 pages)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 31 Aug 1997
Other Format: Paperback

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A Natural History of Latin

by Tore Janson,Merethe Damsgaard Sorensen,Nigel Vincent

ISBN 13: 9780199214051

Format: Paperback (305 pages)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
Published: 15 Mar 2007
Other Format: Hardcover

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Language Change: Progress or Decay? (Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics)

by Jean Aitchison

ISBN 13: 9780521795357

Format: Paperback (328 pages)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 26 Oct 2011
Other Format: Paperback

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The Dialects of England

by Peter Trudgill

ISBN 13: 9780631139171

Format: Hardcover (176 pages)
Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
Published: 24 May 1990
Other Format: Paperback

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Dictionary of Idioms: And Their Origins

by L. Flavell,R.H. Flavell

ISBN 13: 9781856263689

Format: Paperback (224 pages)
Publisher: Kyle Cathie
Published: 27 Apr 2000
Other Format: Hardcover, Paperback

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