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The Play of Words: Fun & Games for Language Lovers

by Richard Lederer

ISBN 13: 9780671689094

Format: Illustrated (294 pages)
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 01 Sep 1991
Other Format: Hardcover

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The Untranslatables: The Most Intriguing Words from Around the World

by Cj Moore, Simon Winchester

ISBN 13: 9780550105998

Format: Hardcover (128 pages)
Publisher: Chambers
Published: 23 Oct 2009

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The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language

by John McWhorter

ISBN 13: 9780099435242

Format: Paperback (336 pages)
Publisher: Arrow
Published: 06 Mar 2003

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology

by T. F. Hoad

ISBN 13: 9780198611820

Format: Hardcover (568 pages)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 15 May 1986
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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The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English

by Henry Hitchings

ISBN 13: 9780374254100

Format: Hardcover (448 pages)
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Published: 16 Sep 2008
Other Format: Hardcover, Paperback

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Alphabet Juice

by Roy Blount

ISBN 13: 9780374103699

Format: Hardcover (384 pages)
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Published: 02 Apr 2009
Other Format: Paperback

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The Hutchinson Concise Dictionary of Word Origins (Helicon language)

by Adrian Room

ISBN 13: 9781859861264

Format: Paperback (192 pages)
Publisher: Helicon
Published: 01 Jul 1995

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The First English Dictionary of Slang 1699

by Bodleian Library

ISBN 13: 9781851243488

Format: Hardcover (224 pages)
Publisher: The Bodleian Library
Published: 14 Sep 2010

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I Love It When You Talk Retro: Hoochie Coochie, Double Whammy, Drop a Dime, and the Forgotten Origins of American Speech

by Ralph Keyes

ISBN 13: 9780312606404

Format: Illustrated (320 pages)
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 02 Feb 2010

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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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A Dictionary of Epithets and Terms of Address

by Leslie Dunkling

ISBN 13: 9780415007610

Format: Hardcover (276 pages)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 07 Jun 1990

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