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Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World

by Nicholas Ostler

ISBN 13: 9780007118700

Format: Hardcover (624 pages)
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 21 Feb 2005

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Language Through the Looking Glass: Exploring Language and Linguistics

by Marina Yaguello

ISBN 13: 9780198700050

Format: Paperback (184 pages)
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 05 Nov 1998

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The Origins of Complex Language: An Inquiry into the Evolutionary Beginnings of Sentences, Syllables, and Truth (Oxford linguistics)

by Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy

ISBN 13: 9780198238225

Format: Hardcover (272 pages)
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 15 Apr 1999
Other Format: Paperback

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The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language

by John McWhorter

ISBN 13: 9780099435242

Format: Paperback (336 pages)
Publisher: Arrow
Published: 06 Mar 2003

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Dinkum Aussie Rhyming Slang

by John Meredith

ISBN 13: 9780864173331

Format: Hardcover (62 pages)
Publisher: Kangaroo Press Pty.Ltd
Published: Dec 1991

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Name Dropping: A No-nonsense Guide to the Use of Names in Everyday Language

by Mr Philip Gooden

ISBN 13: 9780713675887

Format: Hardcover (256 pages)
Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
Published: 29 Sep 2006

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Techspeak: Or How to Talk Hi-tech

by Edward Tenner

ISBN 13: 9780749400217

Format: Paperback (128 pages)
Publisher: Kogan Page Ltd
Published: 30 Nov 1989

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology

by T. F. Hoad

ISBN 13: 9780198611820

Format: Hardcover (568 pages)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 15 May 1986
Other Format: Paperback

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A Dictionary of English Place-names

by A. D. Mills

ISBN 13: 9780198691563

Format: Hardcover (421 pages)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 30 Nov 1991
Other Format: Paperback

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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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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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Ideologies Across Nations: The Construction of Linguistic Minorities at the United Nations (Language, Power & Social Process)

by Alexandre Duchene

ISBN 13: 9783110205848

Format: Paperback (282 pages)
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: Jun 2009
Other Format: Hardcover

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