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The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang

By Ayto, John, Simpson

Top 10 for Men: Over 250 lists that matter

By Ash, Russell, McGinley, Brendan, Cullen, Brian

Scots Saws, from the Folk Wisdom of Scotland

By Murison, David

Lost for Words: Creative Messages for All Occasions

By Schmidt, Kath, Jourdan, Louise

How to Sound Really Clever

Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare

By Butterfield, Jeremy

Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace

By Williams, Joseph M.

THE MEANING OF TINGO

By adam-jacot-de-boinod, Jacot de Boinod, Adam, Howgate, Sandra

501 Latin Verbs (Barron's Foreign Language Guides) (Barron's 501 Verbs)

By Richard E. Prior, Joseph Wohlberg

500 Words You Should Know

By Taggart, Caroline

Harrap's French Slang Dictionary: English-French, Francais-Anglais

By Marks, Georgette

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.

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

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

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

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

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

By Edward Allhusen

More Weird and Wonderful Words

By Erin McKean, Danny Shanahan

Words Words Words

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

Team Talk: Sporting Words and their Origins

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