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Who Put the Butter in Butterfly?: And Other Fearless Investigations into Our Illogical Language

by David Feldman

ISBN 13: 9780060160722

Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Harpercollins
Published: Mar 1989
Other Format: Paperback

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Salty Dog Talk: The Nautical Origins of Everyday Expressions (Sailmate)

by Bill Beavis, Richard G. McClosky, G. McCloskey

ISBN 13: 9780713637168

Format: Paperback (96 pages)
Publisher: Adlard Coles Nautical
Published: May 1993
Other Format: Paperback

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Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English

by Eric Partridge

ISBN 13: 9780415050777

Format: Hardcover (992 pages)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 05 Sep 1977

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Toposaurus: Humorous Treasury of Toponyms

by John D. Jacobson

ISBN 13: 9780471527725

Format: Paperback (256 pages)
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 15 Nov 1990

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Making Whoopee

by Evan Morris

ISBN 13: 9781565123502

Format: Hardcover (208 pages)
Publisher: Algonquin Books (division of Workman)
Published: 19 Feb 2004

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The Cassell Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins (Cassell reference)

by Nigel Rees

ISBN 13: 9780304320509

Format: Hardcover (224 pages)
Publisher: Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated
Published: 22 Oct 1992
Other Format: Paperback

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Wine and Conversation

by Adrienne Lehrer

ISBN 13: 9780195307948

Format: Paperback (336 pages)
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 23 Apr 2009

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The Architecture of the Language Faculty (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs)

by Ray Jackendoff

ISBN 13: 9780262600255

Format: Paperback (278 pages)
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 03 Mar 1997

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A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language

by Walter W. Skeat

ISBN 13: 9781596050921

Format: Hardcover (684 pages)
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Published: 15 Apr 2005

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Doublespeak Defined

by William Lutz

ISBN 13: 9780062734129

Format: Paperback (208 pages)
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 18 Nov 1999

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The Name's Familiar: Mr.Leotard, Barbie, and Chef Boyardee

by Laura Lee

ISBN 13: 9781565543942

Format: Paperback (316 pages)
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
Published: 01 May 1999

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Coptic Etymological Dictionary (Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics)

by Jaroslav erný

ISBN 13: 9781108013994

Format: Paperback (414 pages)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 31 Oct 2010

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