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Reading with My Eyes Open: Embracing the Critical and the Personal in Language Pedagogy

By Quist, Gerdi

The Naming of the Shrew: A Curious History of Latin Names

By John Wright

Lexham English Septuagint

By . Lexham

The Big Book Of Being Rude (BIG BOOKS)

By Green, Jonathon

A Word for Every Day of the Year

By Steven Poole

The Ultimate Cockney Geezer's Guide to Rhyming Slang

By Tibballs, Geoff

Only in Canada You Say: A Treasury of Canadian Language

By Katherine Barber (Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary)

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

By Ken Beatty

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

By Michael Vince

A Dictionary of Euphemisms

By R.W. Holder

The Oxford Dictionary of Rhyming Slang

By John Ayto

Cassell Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins

By Nigel Rees

It's All Greek: Borrowed Words and their Histories

By Alexander Tulloch

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

By Peter K Austin

The Power Of Babel

By John McWhorter

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

By Guy Deutscher

The Wordsworth Book of Euphemism

By Judith S. Neaman, Carole G. Silver

Speaking Norn Iron as She Should be Spoke

By Doreen McBride

Gateway B2: Student's Book

By David Spencer

Old English Phonology

By Roger Lass, John M. Anderson

Orbs and the Attack of the Hair Spiders

By A. M. Richardson

Japanese Street Slang

By Peter Constantine

The Cassell Dictionary of Slang

By Jonathon Green

Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish

By Dovid Katz

Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish

By Dovid Katz

Resurrecting Hebrew

By Ilan Stavans

Ferdinand de Saussure

By JONATHAN CULLER

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

By Dr Robert Vanderplank

Cockney Rhyming Slang

By D.C. Perkins

Pardon My English!

By Michael Munro