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Swearing: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths and Profanity in English

by Geoffrey Hughes

ISBN 13: 9780140267075

Format: Paperback (304 pages)
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 26 Mar 1998

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Well I Never Knew That!: Who Put the Great in Great Britain? (Well I Never Knew That 1)

by Peter Ryding

ISBN 13: 9780955152535

Format: Hardcover (224 pages)
Publisher: Pathfinder Partners Ltd
Published: 08 Sep 2006
Other Format: Hardcover

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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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Codebreaker in the Far East: How Britain cracked Japan's top secret military codes

by Alan Stripp

ISBN 13: 9780192853165

Format: Paperback (218 pages)
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Published: 01 Jun 1995
Other Format: Illustrated

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A Word in Time

by Philip Howard,Ged

ISBN 13: 9781856190176

Format: Hardcover (288 pages)
Publisher: Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd
Published: 05 Nov 1990

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Cassell's Foreign Words and Phrases

by Adrian Room

ISBN 13: 9780304350087

Format: Hardcover (416 pages)
Publisher: Orion
Published: 13 Jul 2000

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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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The Story of English

by Robert McCrum

ISBN 13: 9780571210770

Format: Paperback (496 pages)
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 14 Jan 2002
Other Format: Hardcover, Paperback

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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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Zero to Lazy Eight: The Romance of Numbers

by Alexander Humez,Nicholas Humez,Joseph Maguire

ISBN 13: 9780671742812

Format: Illustrated (228 pages)
Publisher: Touchstone
Published: 05 Aug 1994

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The Fascinating Origins of Everyday Words (Artful Wordsmith Series)

by Adrian Room

ISBN 13: 9780844209104

Format: Paperback (193 pages)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Contemporary
Published: 01 Jan 1996

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The Articulate Mammal: Introduction to Psycholinguistics

by Jean Aitchison

ISBN 13: 9780044453550

Format: Hardcover (292 pages)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 01 Jul 1989
Other Format: Paperback

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