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Joyce Annotated: Notes for Dubliners and a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By Gifford, Don

The Oxford Dictionary of Catchphrases

By Farkas, Anna

Pardon My Spanish!

By Harrap

Knickers in a Twist: A Dictionary of British Slang

By Bernstein, Jonathan

The Daily Telegraph Dictionary of Tommies' Songs and Slang 1914-18

By Brophy, John, Partridge, Eric

The New Zealand Pocket Oxford Dictionary

By Burchfield, R.W.

The Deise Dictionary: No. 2 (Deise Dictionary of Waterford Slang)

By Foley, Cian Declan

The Dinkum Aussie Dictionary

By Beckett, Richard, Akhurst, Brendan

The Complete Patter: "The Patter: Guide to Current Glasgow Usage" and "The Patter: Another Blast"

By Munro, Michael, Byrne, John

Shorter Slang Dictionary (The Partridge Collection)

By Beale, Paul, Partridge, Eric, Fergusson, Rosalind

The Patter: Another Blast

By Munro, Michael, Neilson, David

The Scots Dialect Dictionary

By Warrack Alexander

The Book of Feckin' Irish Slang that's great craic for cute hoors and bowsies (The Feckin' Collection)

By Murphy, Colin, O'Dea, Donal

Dictionnaire Bilingue De l'Argot d'Aujourd'Hui

By Larousse Bilingual Dictionaries, Brunet, F

Simply English: An A-Z of Avoidable Errors

By Heffer, Simon

BRITSLANG

By Ray Puxley

The New Dinkum Aussie Dictionary

By Beckett, R

A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms

By Wilkes, G.A.

Longman Dictionary of American English: Dictionary for Learners of English

By Allen, Virginia French, Longman, Inc Staff

More Weird and Wonderful Words

By Erin McKean, Danny Shanahan

Fletcher's Book of Rhyming Slang

By Ronnie Barker, Malcolm Poynter

Dirty French: Everyday Slang from 'What's Up?' to 'F*%# Off'

By Adrien Clautrier, Henry Rowe

COCKNEY RABBIT

Slang Thesaurus

By Jonathon Green

A New Dictionary of Kent Dialect

By Alan Major

Ship to Shore: A Dictionary of Everyday Words and Phrases Derived from the Sea

By Peter D. Jeans, Ross Shardlow

Collins Dictionary of Quotations

American Slang

By Robert L. Chapman

Where a Dobdob Meets a Dikdik: A Word Lover's Guide to the Weirdest, Wackiest, and Wonkiest Lexical Gems

By Bill Casselman

Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang

By John Ayto (Freelance lexicographer), John Simpson (Chief Editor, Oxford English Dictionary)