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Historical & Comparative Linguistics

Clichés: Avoid Them Like The Plague

My Grammar and I (Or Should That Be 'Me'?): Old-School Ways to Sharpen Your English (I Used to Know That ...)

Wordgloss: A Cultural Lexicon

Red Herrings and White Elephants

Red Herrings and White Elephants

Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat: Naval Slang and Its Everyday Usage

FUBAR F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition: Soldier Slang of World War II

Fighting Talk: The military origins of everyday words and phrases

Pop Goes the Weasel: The Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes

Why is Q Always Followed by U?: Word-Perfect Answers to the Most-Asked Questions About Language

Vulgar Tongues: An Alternative History of English Slang

Introducing Linguistics: A Graphic Guide

The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language

The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language

The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language

Inside out Series: Exploring Place-Names in Wales

DICTIONARY OF RAF SLANG

The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology (Wordsworth Reference)

The Wordsworth Dictionary of Foreign Words in English (Wordsworth Reference)

Latin in Our Language (Latin language)

Bloomers, Biros and Wellington Boots: How the Names Became the Words

Dictionary of Proverbs

Dictionary of Word Origins

The Yorkshire Dictionary of Dialect, Tradition and Folklore

English for Economics in Higher Education Studies (English for Specific Academic Purposes)

Progressive Skills in English 3

Progressive Skills in English 4 Student's Book

Brewers Dictionary of Names: People & Places & Things: People and Places and Things (Hutchinson reference classics)

BRITSLANG: an Uncensored A-Z of the Peoples' Language, Rhyming Slang
