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Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang

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

Collins Gem French School Dictionary (Collins School)

By Collins Dictionaries

Words, Words, Words: A Reference Book for Beginning Writers

By Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz

Collins Bradford's Crossword Solver's Dictionary

By Anne R. Bradford

Collins Spanish Dictionary 40th anniversary edition (Collins Complete and Unabridged)

By Collins Dictionaries

101 Ways to Win at Scrabble (Collins Little Books)

By Grossman, Barry

Collins Pocket Thai Dictionary (Collins Pocket)

By Collins Dictionaries

Collins Pocket Turkish Dictionary (Collins Pocket)

By Collins Dictionaries

Collins Robert French Dictionary (Collins Complete and Unabridged)

By Collins Dictionaries

Collins Pocket English Thesaurus (Collins Pocket)

By Collins Dictionaries

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

Collins I Smirt, You Stooze, They Krump: Can you still speak English?

By Crozier, Justin, McKeown, Cormac, Summers, Elspeth

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.

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

By Editorial Board

A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi: Words We Pinched From Other Languages (I Used to Know That ...)

By Rhodes, Chloe

Rude Spanish: An Alternative Spanish Phrasebook

By Harrap

1100 Words You Need to Know (Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know)

By Murray Bromberg, Melvin Gordon

Afterliff

By John Lloyd, Jon Canter

Words Words Words

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