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Historical & Comparative Linguistics

A Word for Every Day of the Year

The Ultimate Cockney Geezer's Guide to Rhyming Slang

Only in Canada You Say: A Treasury of Canadian Language

LEAP (Learning English for Academic Purposes) High Intermediate, Listening and Speaking with My eLab

First Certificate Language Practice Student's Book +key Pack 4th Edition

A Dictionary of Euphemisms

The Oxford Dictionary of Rhyming Slang

Stone the Crows: Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang

Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish

Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish

Old English Phonology

Language Leader Pre-Intermediate Teachers Book and Test Master CD-Rom Pack

The Oxford Dictionary of Word Histories

The Swahili: Reconstructing the History and Language of an African Society, 800-1500

It's All Greek: Borrowed Words and their Histories

1000 Languages:The Worldwide History of Living and Lost Tongues: The Worldwide History of Living and Lost Tongues

The Power Of Babel

Through the Language Glass: Why The World Looks Different In Other Languages

The Wordsworth Book of Euphemism

Speaking Norn Iron as She Should be Spoke

Gateway B2: Student's Book

The Reverend Guppys Aquarium

Ferdinand de Saussure

Uglier Than a Monkey's Armpit: Untranslatable insults, put-downs and curses from around the world

The Cassell Dictionary of Slang

Archaeological and Linguistic Reconstruction of African History

Cockney Rhyming Slang

Cassell Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins

Orbs and the Attack of the Hair Spiders
