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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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Oxford School Dictionary of Word Origins

by John Ayto

ISBN 13: 9780199108084

Format: Hardcover (512 pages)
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 18 Nov 2002
Other Format: Hardcover

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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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Origin of English Surnames

by P. H. Reaney

ISBN 13: 9780415059176

Format: Paperback (436 pages)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 31 Jan 1992

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A History of Language (Globalities)

by Steven R. Fischer

ISBN 13: 9781861890801

Format: Paperback (240 pages)
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 22 Aug 2001

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Pitmatic: Talk of the North East Coal Field

by Bill Griffiths

ISBN 13: 9781904794257

Format: Illustrated (280 pages)
Publisher: Northumbria University Press
Published: 14 Jul 2007

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The Unfolding of Language

by Guy Deutscher

ISBN 13: 9780434011551

Format: Hardcover (320 pages)
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
Published: 05 May 2005
Other Format: Paperback

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A Companion to Baugh and Cable's History of the English Language

by Thomas Cable

ISBN 13: 9780415298940

Format: Paperback (179 pages)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 27 Jun 2002

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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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The Yorkshire Dictionary of Dialect, Tradition and Folklore

by Arnold Kellett

ISBN 13: 9781858250168

Format: Paperback (240 pages)
Publisher: Smith Settle
Published: 01 Jan 1994

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A Book of Middle English

by J. A. Burrow, Thorlac Turville–Petre

ISBN 13: 9780631193531

Format: Paperback (373 pages)
Publisher: WileyBlackwell
Published: 20 Dec 1995
Other Format: Paperback

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The Word Detective: Solving the Mysteries behind Those Pesky Phrases

by Evan Morris

ISBN 13: 9781565122390

Format: Hardcover (288 pages)
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Published: 19 Apr 2001

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