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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

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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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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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Unspeak

by Steven Poole

ISBN 13: 9780316731003

Format: Hardcover (288 pages)
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 16 Feb 2006
Other Format: Paperback

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Slang Down the Ages: A Historical Development of Slang

by Jonathon Green

ISBN 13: 9781856261609

Format: Paperback (352 pages)
Publisher: Kyle Cathie
Published: Nov 1994
Other Format: Hardcover, Paperback

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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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Bloomsbury Dictionary of Word Origins

by John Ayto

ISBN 13: 9780747509714

Format: Paperback (592 pages)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 30 Sep 1991
Other Format: Hardcover

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Place Names of Great Britain and Ireland

by John Field

ISBN 13: 9780715374399

Format: Hardcover (192 pages)
Publisher: David & Charles
Published: Sep 1980

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology (Oxford Quick Reference)

by T. F. Hoad

ISBN 13: 9780192830982

Format: Paperback (576 pages)
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 03 Jun 1993

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A Man About a Dog: Euphemisms and Other Examples of Verbal Squeamishness

by Nigel Rees

ISBN 13: 9780007240975

Format: Paperback (432 pages)
Publisher: Collins
Published: 04 Sep 2006
Other Format: Hardcover, Paperback

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How to Read a Word

by Elizabeth Knowles

ISBN 13: 9780199574896

Format: Hardcover (224 pages)
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 28 Oct 2010

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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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