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

by Robert Claiborne

ISBN 13: 9780747506553

Format: Hardcover (320 pages)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 13 Sep 1990
Other Format: Hardcover

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Cassell Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins (Cassell language reference)

by Nigel Rees

ISBN 13: 9780304348039

Format: Hardcover (288 pages)
Publisher: Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated
Published: 24 Oct 1996
Other Format: Hardcover, Paperback

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Voices in Stone

by Ernst Doblhofer

ISBN 13: 9780586081198

Format: Paperback (327 pages)
Publisher: Flamingo
Published: 25 Jan 1973

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The Adventure Of English: The Biography of a Language

by Melvyn Bragg

ISBN 13: 9780340829936

Format: Paperback (368 pages)
Publisher: Sceptre
Published: 01 Sep 2004
Other Format: Hardcover

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Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where it's Heading

by Naomi S. Baron

ISBN 13: 9780415186858

Format: Hardcover (336 pages)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 27 Jan 2000
Other Format: Paperback

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To Coin a Phrase: A Dictionary of Origins (Papermacs)

by A. Smith, E. Radford

ISBN 13: 9780333316436

Format: Paperback (290 pages)
Publisher: Papermac
Published: Aug 1981
Other Format: Paperback

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The Macmillan Dictionary of American Slang

by Robert L. Chapman

ISBN 13: 9780333634059

Format: Abridged (528 pages)
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 12 Feb 1995

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Cassell's Dictionary of English Idioms (Cassell Dictionary Of ...)

by Rosalind Fergusson

ISBN 13: 9780304363841

Format: Paperback (416 pages)
Publisher: Orion
Published: 08 Aug 2002

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Playground Slang and Teenspeak

by Michael Janes

ISBN 13: 9780902920903

Format: Paperback (36 pages)
Publisher: Abson Books London
Published: Jul 2007

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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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Euro-slang: The Practical Language Guide to Boozing and Bonking from Mykonos to Malaga

by Roger Hutchinson, Edward Barker

ISBN 13: 9781851585052

Format: Paperback (208 pages)
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
Published: 30 Nov 1992

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Et Cetera, Et Cetera: Notes of a Word-Watcher

by Lewis Thomas

ISBN 13: 9780316840996

Format: Hardcover (192 pages)
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Published: 29 Nov 1990

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