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Shaggy Dogs and Black Sheep
Shaggy Dogs and Black Sheep: The Origins of Even More Phrases We Use Every Day by Albert Jack (Author)
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Codswallop, Crumpet and Caper
Codswallop, Crumpet and Caper: Words and Where They Came From (Words & Where They Came from) by Edward Allhusen (Author)
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Mother Tongue
Mother Tongue: The English Language by Bill Bryson (Author)
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What Made The Crocodile Cry?
What Made The Crocodile Cry?: 101 questions about the English language by Susie Dent (Author)
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The Adventure
The Adventure of English by Melvyn Bragg (Author)
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Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary
Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary: With additional material from A Thesaurus of Old English by Christian Kay (Editor), Jane Roberts (Editor), Michael Samuels (Editor), Irené Wotherspoon (Editor)
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Dictionary of Proverbs
Dictionary of Proverbs: And Their Origins by Linda Flavell (Author), Roger Flavell (Author)
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Larn Yersel
Larn Yersel' Geordie by Scott Dobson (Author)
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Uglier Than a Monkey's Armpit
Uglier Than a Monkey's Armpit: Untranslatable insults, put-downs and curses from around the world by Dr Robert Vanderplank (Author)
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The Stories
The Stories of English by David Crystal (Author)
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Chambers Dictionary
Chambers Dictionary of Etymology by Chambers (ed.) (Author)
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Dictionary of
Dictionary of Idioms by R.H. Flavell (Author), L. Flavell (Author)
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Yorkshire English
Yorkshire English by Edward H. Johnson (Author)
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Dictionary of
Dictionary of Word Origins by L. Flavell (Author), R.H. Flavell (Author)
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Port Out, Starboard Home
Port Out, Starboard Home: And Other Language Myths by Michael Quinion (Author)
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Empires of the Word
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler (Author)
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Linguistics
Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by P. H. Matthews (Author)
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Balderdash and Piffle
Balderdash and Piffle: One Sandwich Short of a Dog's Dinner by Alex Games (Author)
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Journeys in
Journeys in English by Bill Bryson (Author)
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Bees Knees
Bees Knees and Barmy Armies by Harry Oliver (Author)
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The Oxford
The Oxford Dictionary of Word Histories (Oxford Paperback Reference) by Glynnis Chantrell (Editor)
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The Little
The Little Book of Essential English Swear Words by Stewart Ferris (Author)
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Ey Up Mi Duck!
Ey Up Mi Duck!: Dialect of Derbyshire and the East Midlands (Local Dialect) by Richard Scollins (Author), John Titford (Author)
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Damp Squid
Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare by Jeremy Butterfield (Author)
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Lankie Twang
Lankie Twang (Local Dialect) by Ron Freethy (Author), Richard Scollins (Illustrator)
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