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Word Origins: The Hidden Histories of English Words from A to Z

by John Ayto

ISBN 13: 9780713674989

Format: Paperback (576 pages)
Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
Published: 04 Oct 2005

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Why Do We Say...?: Words and Sayings and Where They Come from

by Nigel Rees

ISBN 13: 9780713719444

Format: Hardcover (224 pages)
Publisher: Blandford Press
Published: Sep 1987
Other Format: Paperback

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Collins Quite Brilliant: A celebration of British English (Gift)

by UNKNOWN

ISBN 13: 9780007485796

Format: Paperback (256 pages)
Publisher: Collins
Published: 07 Jun 2012

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Why You Say it: The Fascinating Stories Behind Over 600 Everyday Words and Phrases

by Webb B. Garrison

ISBN 13: 9781558531284

Format: Paperback (372 pages)
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
Published: 01 Nov 1992

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Dunces, Gourmands and Petticoats (Artful Wordsmith Series)

by Adrian Room

ISBN 13: 9780844209210

Format: Paperback (292 pages)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Contemporary
Published: 01 May 1998

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MILLION WORDS AND COUNTING, A: How Global English Is Rewriting the World

by Paul Payack

ISBN 13: 9780806528571

Format: Hardcover (224 pages)
Publisher: CITADEL
Published: 15 May 2008

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Bloomsbury Dictionary of Place Names in the British Isles

by Adrian Room

ISBN 13: 9780747501701

Format: Hardcover (320 pages)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 20 Oct 1988
Other Format: Paperback

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The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology (Wordsworth Reference)

by Walter W. Skeat,Walter W. Skeat

ISBN 13: 9781853263118

Format: Paperback (656 pages)
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Published: 25 Nov 1993

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The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English

by Henry Hitchings

ISBN 13: 9780719564543

Format: Hardcover (432 pages)
Publisher: John Murray
Published: 03 Apr 2008
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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Dictionary of Word Origins: The Histories of Over 8, 000 Words Explained

by John Ayto

ISBN 13: 9780747554486

Format: Paperback (592 pages)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 03 Sep 2001
Other Format: Hardcover, Paperback

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Strange Bedfellows: The Private Lives of Words: 1st (Historical Comparative Linguis)

by Howard Richler

ISBN 13: 9781553801009

Format: Paperback (164 pages)
Publisher: Ronsdale Press
Published: 01 Mar 2010

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