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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

Stone the Crows: Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang

By John Ayto, John Simpson

Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish

By Dovid Katz

Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish

By Dovid Katz

Old English Phonology

By Roger Lass, John M. Anderson

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

By Grant Kempton

The Oxford Dictionary of Word Histories

By Glynnis Chantrell

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

By Derek Nurse, Thomas Spear

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

The Reverend Guppys Aquarium

By Philip Dodd

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

The Cassell Dictionary of Slang

By Jonathon Green

Archaeological and Linguistic Reconstruction of African History

By Christopher Ehret, Merrick Posnansky

Cockney Rhyming Slang

By D.C. Perkins

Cassell Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins

By Nigel Rees

Orbs and the Attack of the Hair Spiders

By A. M. Richardson

Japanese Street Slang

By Peter Constantine