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Dictionary of Word Origins

by L. Flavell,R.H. Flavell

ISBN 13: 9781856265645

Format: Paperback (288 pages)
Publisher: Kyle Cathie
Published: 01 Jul 2004
Other Format: Hardcover, Paperback

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Cassell's Dictionary Of Word And Phrase Origins

by Nigel Rees

ISBN 13: 9780304362257

Format: Paperback (284 pages)
Publisher: Cassell
Published: 14 Mar 2002

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All Gong and No Dinner: 1001 Homely Phrases and Curious Domestic Sayings

by Nigel Rees

ISBN 13: 9780007249350

Format: Hardcover (400 pages)
Publisher: Collins
Published: 03 Sep 2007

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Cassell Dictionary of Catchphrases (Language reference)

by Nigel Rees

ISBN 13: 9780304345632

Format: Hardcover (256 pages)
Publisher: Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated
Published: 29 Jun 1995
Other Format: Paperback

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Altered English: Surprising Meanings of Familiar Words

by Jeffrey Kacirk

ISBN 13: 9780764920196

Format: Hardcover (240 pages)
Publisher: Pomegranate Communications Inc,US
Published: Jan 2002

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Whatever Happened to Tanganyika?: The Place Names That History Left Behind

by Harry Campbell,Alexander McCall Smith

ISBN 13: 9781906032050

Format: Illustrated (192 pages)
Publisher: Portico
Published: 01 Sep 2007

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Authority in Language: Investigating Language Standardisation and Prescription (Language, Education & Society Series)

by James Milroy, Lesley Milroy

ISBN 13: 9780710212016

Format: Paperback (204 pages)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 01 Feb 1986

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Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable

by Adrian Room

ISBN 13: 9780304353811

Format: Hardcover (832 pages)
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 02 Nov 2000

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The Secret Life of The English Language: Buttering Parsnips and Twocking Chavs

by Martin H. Manser,David Pickering

ISBN 13: 9780753824177

Format: Paperback (272 pages)
Publisher: W&N
Published: 04 Sep 2008

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In Other Words: The Meanings and Memoirs of Euphemisms

by Dominique Enright

ISBN 13: 9781843171447

Format: Hardcover (160 pages)
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
Published: 11 Aug 2005

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Codswallop, Crumpet and Caper: Words and Where They Came From

by Edward Allhusen

ISBN 13: 9781873590805

Format: Hardcover (208 pages)
Publisher: Old House
Published: 01 Jan 2009

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New Book of Word Histories

by Merriam-Webster

ISBN 13: 9780877796039

Format: Paperback (526 pages)
Publisher: Merriam Webster,U.S.
Published: Oct 1991

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