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The Queen's English: An A to Zed Guide to Distinctively British Words

By Moore, C. J.

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Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas: Popular Expressions - What They Mean and Where We Got Them (I Used to Know That ...)

By Parkinson, Judy

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Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas: Popular Expressions - What They Mean and Where We Got Them

By Parkinson, Judy

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Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English (Abusus Non Tollit Usum) (Penguin Reference Books)

By Eric Partridge

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Words Words Words

By David Crystal (Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor)

Collins English Dictionary

By Collins Dictionaries

Collins Spell Like a Champion (The Times Spelling Bee)

By Various

The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations

By Market House Books Ltd

Collins Scrabble Dictionary

By Collins Dictionaries

MLA Handbook

By Modern Language Association

Collins Scrabble Dictionary

By Collins

COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary (Collins COBUILD Dictionaries for Learners )

Forgotten English

By Jeffrey Kacirk

Pardon My German

By Joaqu Blasco, Veronika Schnorr

Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang

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

Collins Official Scrabble Dictionary

Afterliff

By John Lloyd, Jon Canter

Team Talk: Sporting Words and their Origins

By Julian Walker (University of the Arts London, UK)

1000 English Idioms Explained (English Language): Home-grown and from Across the Pond

By Editorial Board

The Wordsworth Dictionary of Anagrams (Wordsworth Reference)

By Curl, Michael

Top 10 of Britain: 250 quintessentially British lists

By Ash, Russell

John Smith Spelling Book: Bk.5

By Smith, John

The Superior Person's Book of Words

By Bowler, Peter

Word Power Made Easy: The Complete Handbook for Building a Superior Vocabulary

By Norman Lewis

Haggard Hawks and Paltry Poltroons: The Origins of English in Ten Words

By Paul Anthony Jones

The Oxford Companion to World Mythology (Oxford Companions)

By Leeming, David

Collins Bradford’s Crossword Solver’s Lists

By Bradford, Anne R.

Fopdoodle and Salmagundi: Words and Meanings from Dr Samuel Johnson's Dictionary That Time Forgot

By Edward Allhusen

Essential Academic Vocabulary: Mastering the Complete Academic Word List

By Huntley, Helen

The Chronology Of Words And Phrases - A Thousand Years In The History Of England

By Flavell, Linda and Roger