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The Vulgar Tongue: Buckish Slang and Pickpocket Eloquence

by Francis Grose

ISBN 13: 9781840244137

Format: Hardcover (316 pages)
Publisher: Summersdale
Published: 01 Sep 2004

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The Real McCoy: The True Stories Behind Our Everyday Phrases

by Georgia Hole

ISBN 13: 9780192806116

Format: Illustrated (208 pages)
Publisher: OUP UK
Published: 01 Oct 2005

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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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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

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Essentials of Early English

by Jeremy J. Smith

ISBN 13: 9780415187435

Format: Paperback (272 pages)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 27 May 1999

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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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Harrap's Pardon My French! (Pocket Slang Dictionary)

by Kate Nicholson,Georges Pilard

ISBN 13: 9780245607646

Format: Paperback (416 pages)
Publisher: Chambers
Published: 30 Mar 2007

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Who Put the Butter in Butterfly?: And Other Fearless Investigations into Our Illogical Language

by David Feldman

ISBN 13: 9780060916619

Format: Paperback (224 pages)
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 31 Mar 1990

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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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The Big Book Of Being Rude (Big Books)

by Jonathon Green

ISBN 13: 9780304355143

Format: Hardcover (384 pages)
Publisher: Orion
Published: 16 Nov 2000
Other Format: Paperback

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Dictionary of Idioms: And Their Origins

by L. Flavell, R.H. Flavell

ISBN 13: 9781856261296

Format: Paperback (224 pages)
Publisher: Kyle Cathie
Published: 24 Feb 1994
Other Format: Paperback

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Challenging Cryptograms

by Helen Nash

ISBN 13: 9780806905945

Format: Paperback (128 pages)
Publisher: Sterling
Published: 23 Jun 1994

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