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Fopdoodle and Salmagundi: Words and Meanings from Dr Samuel Johnson's Dictionary That Time Forgot

by Edward Allhusen, Dr Samuel Johnson

ISBN 13: 9781873590638

Format: Hardcover (208 pages)
Publisher: Old House Books
Published: 01 Jun 2007

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Dictionary of True Etymologies

by Adrian Room

ISBN 13: 9780710203403

Format: Hardcover (193 pages)
Publisher: Law Book Co of Australasia
Published: 31 Mar 1986

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Ee Up Lad! A Salute to the Yorkshire Dialect

by Richard Scollins, Len Markham

ISBN 13: 9781853067631

Format: Paperback (96 pages)
Publisher: Countryside Books
Published: 31 Oct 2002

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The F Word

by Jesse Sheidlower

ISBN 13: 9780571197309

Format: Paperback (272 pages)
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 20 Sep 1999

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

by Susie Dent

ISBN 13: 9780199574155

Format: Paperback (176 pages)
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 22 Oct 2009

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A Certain "Je Ne Sais Quoi": The Origin of Foreign Words Used in English

by Chloe Rhodes

ISBN 13: 9781606520574

Format: Hardcover (176 pages)
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
Published: 04 Mar 2010

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Buttering Parsnips, Twocking Chavs: 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: Phoenix
Published: 04 Sep 2008

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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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A Speak: A Short History of Languages

by Tore Janson

ISBN 13: 9780198299783

Format: Hardcover (316 pages)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 14 Mar 2002
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: Paperback

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Why Scots Matters

by J.Derrick McClure

ISBN 13: 9780854110711

Format: Paperback (128 pages)
Publisher: Saltire Society
Published: May 1997

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Caw'd A Hell - Thas Suffen Good! (Local Dialect)

by Charlie Haylock

ISBN 13: 9781846741241

Format: Paperback (96 pages)
Publisher: Countryside Books
Published: 23 Oct 2008

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