Author: Eric Partridge
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1447495799
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author: Francis Grose
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Author: W. E. Collinson
Publisher: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag
ISBN: 366316196X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 171
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This book is written primarily for foreign students and teachers of English. That purpose governs the whole presentment and organization of the material and the type of explanation offered. To my own fellow countrymen it may, at the highest reckoning, offer a means of bringing to the surface hidden memories of curious and amusing words. Probably it brings them little that is new, but it may stimulate them to seek out and regroup their own linguistic experiences. In fifty years' time the work might even claim the atten tion of the English philologist, whom it will provide with a certain amount of dated material for his historical inductions. For the present its mission is more humble and more practical. The first idea that such a collection as the present might not be unwelcome, lowe to Professor Jespersen~ whose kindness in looking through the first draft and suggesting improvements I acknowledge with deep grati tude. Mr. Bradley and Mr. Hutton, both of the Liver pool University Library, have unselfishly given me the benefit of their sharp eyes and wide reading; a number of their proposed emendations and additions have been gratefully embodied. My special thanks are due to Dr. Hittmair of the University of Innsbruck, whose encouragement and ungrudging help have throughout been of the greatest value to me. Finally I feel I must express my gratitude to the firm of Teubner for its care in preparing my MS.
Author: Julian Franklyn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Author: Edward Ellis Morris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108028799
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 553
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The first scholarly dictionary of Australian and New Zealand English, including loan words from indigenous languages, originally published in 1898.
Author: Bath C. Smart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gipsies
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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Author: G.L. Apperson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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Author: Charles Talbut Onions
Publisher: Oxford : The Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Author: Eric Partridge
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317426444
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 243
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First published in 1933 (this edition in 1939), this book sees Partridge introducing the reader to the eccentric lexicographers Wesley and Captain Grose. In an entertaining way, the book jovially explores and discusses various words and phrases such as "bloody", euphemisms, the Devil’s nicknames, various versions of slang, and familiar terms of address. He does so with light-worn learning making the book of interest to a whole variety of readers.
Author: Sir John Harington
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ISBN:
Category : Outhouses
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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