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A Dictionary of Abbreviations
EbookSofort lieferbarFirst published in 1942, this dictionary was designed to help civilians and members of H.M. force...
A Dictionary of Abbreviations
EbookSofort lieferbarFirst published in 1942, this dictionary was designed to help civilians and members of H.M. force...
Dictionary of Catch Phrases
EbookSofort lieferbarA catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has `caught on' or become p...
Shakespeare’s Bawdy
EbookSofort lieferbarThis classic of Shakespeare scholarship begins with a masterly introductory essay analysing and e...
A Dictionary of Cliches
EbookSofort lieferbarThis work is full of things better left unsaid: hackneyed phrases, idioms battered into senseless...
A Dictionary of Catch Phrases
EbookSofort lieferbarA catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has caught on' or become po...
Shorter Slang Dictionary
EbookSofort lieferbarFrom abdabs to zit From pillock (14th century) to couch potato (20th century) From She'll be appl...
Origins
EbookSofort lieferbarThis dictionary gives the origins of some 20,000 items from the modern English vocabulary, discus...
Holy Terror
EbookSofort lieferbarTo what degree does violent rhetoric shape belief and values? How might we understand the social ...
The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
EbookSofort lieferbarDrawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressio...
You Have a Point There
EbookSofort lieferbarThis standard work on punctuation has long been judged the foremost study of the subject. It reve...
Slang
EbookSofort lieferbarFirst published in 1933, this book explores both contemporary and historical slang, focusing on t...