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A History of Reading

by Alberto Manguel

ISBN 13: 9780006546818

Format: Paperback (384 pages)
Publisher: Flamingo
Published: 21 Apr 1997

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Dunces, Gourmands and Petticoats (Artful Wordsmith Series)

by Adrian Room

ISBN 13: 9780844209210

Format: Paperback (292 pages)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Contemporary
Published: 01 May 1998

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Scouse International: The Liverpool Dialect in Five Languages

by Hanny Hieger,Fritz Spiegl,Andree Owen,Masahiro Kurokawa

ISBN 13: 9780901367372

Format: Paperback (153 pages)
Publisher: Scouse Press
Published: 01 Feb 2001

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Brewer's Dictionary of Twentieth Century Phrase and Fable (Cassell Language Reference)

by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

ISBN 13: 9780304343713

Format: Hardcover (672 pages)
Publisher: Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated
Published: 11 Nov 1993
Other Format: Hardcover, Paperback

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The Life and Times of the English Language: The History of Our Marvellous Native Tongue

by Robert Claiborne

ISBN 13: 9780747509882

Format: Hardcover (344 pages)
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 30 Sep 1991
Other Format: Hardcover

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Scuttlebutt: And Other Expressions of Nautical Origin

by Tina Holdcroft, Teri Degler

ISBN 13: 9780805009897

Format: Paperback (113 pages)
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co (P)
Published: Jun 1989

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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 Linguistic Legacy of Spanish and Portuguese: Colonial Expansion and Language Change (Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact)

by J. Clancy Clements

ISBN 13: 9780521539449

Format: Illustrated (276 pages)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 26 Mar 2009

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Street French Slang Dictionary and Thesaurus

by N/A

ISBN 13: 9780471168065

Format: Paperback (336 pages)
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 21 Oct 1997

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Word Origins: The Hidden Histories of English Words from A to Z

by John Ayto

ISBN 13: 9780713674989

Format: Paperback (576 pages)
Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
Published: 04 Oct 2005

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Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin

by Nicholas Ostler

ISBN 13: 9780007343065

Format: Paperback (352 pages)
Publisher: HarperPress
Published: 29 Oct 2009

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Twentieth Century Words

by John Ayto,John Ayto

ISBN 13: 9780198602309

Format: Hardcover (640 pages)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 12 Aug 1999

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