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Where Words Come from: A Dictionary of Word Origins

by Fred Sedgwick

ISBN 13: 9781847062741

Format: Illustrated (222 pages)
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 21 May 2009

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Frumspeak: The First Dictionary of Yeshivish

by Chaim M. Weiser

ISBN 13: 9781568216140

Format: Hardcover (150 pages)
Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.
Published: 28 Oct 1995

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The F-Word

by Jesse Sheidlower,Lewis Black

ISBN 13: 9780195393118

Format: Hardcover (320 pages)
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 10 Sep 2009

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Cowboy Slang: Colorful Cowboy Sayings

by Edgar R. Potter,Ron Scofield

ISBN 13: 9780914846239

Format: Illustrated (128 pages)
Publisher: Golden West
Published: 01 Feb 2002

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The New Joys of Yiddish: Completely Updated

by Leo Rosten,Lawrence Bush,Ro Blechman

ISBN 13: 9780609806920

Format: Illustrated (496 pages)
Publisher: Harmony
Published: 01 Oct 2003

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Hog on Ice, A: & Other Curious Expressions

by Charles Earle Funk, Tom Funk

ISBN 13: 9780060513290

Format: Paperback (224 pages)
Publisher: HarperResource
Published: Oct 2002

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Horsefeathers: & Other Curious Words

by Charles Earle Funk

ISBN 13: 9780060513375

Format: Paperback (256 pages)
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: Nov 2002

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The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language

by Christine Kenneally

ISBN 13: 9780143113744

Format: Paperback (368 pages)
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 01 Jun 2008

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A Linguistic Study of the Development of Scientific Vocabulary in Standard Arabic (Library of Arabic Linguistics Monograph, No 6)

by S.Mehdi Ali

ISBN 13: 9780710300232

Format: Hardcover (256 pages)
Publisher: Kegan Paul
Published: 04 Jan 1987

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Unspeak: How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Reality

by Steven Poole

ISBN 13: 9780802143051

Format: Paperback (288 pages)
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 10 May 2007
Other Format: Hardcover, Paperback

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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots

by Prof Joseph Twadell Shipley

ISBN 13: 9780801867842

Format: Paperback (672 pages)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 15 Feb 2001

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The Story of English

by Robert McCrum, Robert Macneil, William Cran

ISBN 13: 9780142002315

Format: Paperback (496 pages)
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Jan 2003
Other Format: Hardcover, Paperback

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