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The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English

by Henry Hitchings

ISBN 13: 9780719564543

Format: Hardcover (432 pages)
Publisher: John Murray
Published: 03 Apr 2008
Other Format: Paperback

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Big Book of Rhyming Slang (Big Books)

by Jonathon Green

ISBN 13: 9780304363865

Format: Paperback (480 pages)
Publisher: W&N
Published: 12 Sep 2002

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The Semantic Predecessors of Need in the History of English (c.750-1710) (Publications of the Philological Society): 43

by Lucía Loureiro-Porto

ISBN 13: 9781405192705

Format: Illustrated (292 pages)
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 18 Sep 2009

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Awa' An' Bile Yer Heid!: Scottish Curses and Insults

by David Ross,Barbara Robertson

ISBN 13: 9781841580128

Format: Paperback (96 pages)
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Published: 07 Sep 1999
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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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: Paperback

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Reference)

by John Simpson, Jennifer Speake

ISBN 13: 9780198661771

Format: Hardcover (320 pages)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 23 Jul 1992
Other Format: Hardcover, Paperback

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Spoken Here

by Mark Abley

ISBN 13: 9780434011537

Format: Hardcover (336 pages)
Publisher: William Heinemann
Published: 22 Jan 2004

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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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The Talking Ape : How Language Evolved: How Language Evolved (Studies in the Evolution of Language)

by Robbins Burling

ISBN 13: 9780199214037

Format: Paperback (296 pages)
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 08 Mar 2007
Other Format: Hardcover

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Why Do We Say That?

by Noel P. Crighton,Tony Grogan

ISBN 13: 9780798137430

Format: Paperback (76 pages)
Publisher: Human & Rousseau (Pty) Ltd
Published: 31 Mar 1998

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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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