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Wordwatching: Breaking into the Dictionary: It's His Word Against Theirs

by Alex Horne

ISBN 13: 9781905264612

Format: Paperback (336 pages)
Publisher: Virgin Books
Published: 14 Jan 2010

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French Letters and the English Canon

by Mark Daniel

ISBN 13: 9781857252071

Format: Hardcover (304 pages)
Publisher: Timewell Press
Published: 13 Sep 2007

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Bloomsbury Dictionary of Word Origins

by John Ayto

ISBN 13: 9780747509714

Format: Paperback (592 pages)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 30 Sep 1991
Other Format: Hardcover

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Story of English

by Robert McCrum,William Cran,Robert MacNeil

ISBN 13: 9780563202479

Format: Paperback (320 pages)
Publisher: BBC Books
Published: 18 Sep 1986
Other Format: Hardcover, Paperback

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A Word In Your Shell-Like

by Nigel Rees

ISBN 13: 9780007220878

Format: Paperback (768 pages)
Publisher: Collins
Published: 02 May 2006
Other Format: Hardcover

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The Concise Hobson-Jobson: An Anglo-Indian Dictionary (Wordsworth Reference)

by Henry Yule,A.C. Burnell

ISBN 13: 9781853263637

Format: Abridged (472 pages)
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Published: 05 Jan 1996

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The Story of English

by Robert McCrum, William Cran, Robert MacNeil

ISBN 13: 9780571149087

Format: Paperback (384 pages)
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 14 Sep 1987
Other Format: Hardcover, Paperback

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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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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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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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A Dictionary of Rhyming Slang

by Julian Franklyn

ISBN 13: 9780415046022

Format: Paperback (228 pages)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 17 Apr 1975

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