Author: Edward Latham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Author: Laurence Urdang
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780452009080
Category : Names
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Author: Laurence Urdang
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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This fascinating reference provides connotative definitions of 1,500 legendary, fictional, and real locales and landmarks worldwide - from Amazonia to Vatican City, from Atlantis to the Watergate Hotel, from the Black Hole to Calcutta to Westminster Abbey.

Author: Adrian Room
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810831698
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Information on more than 660 terms used in onomastics, the study of names.

Author: Mary K. Mannix
Publisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 0838912966
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 609

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Profiling more than 1400 print and electronic sources, this book helps connect librarians and researchers to the most relevant sources of information in genealogy and biography.

Author: Illinois State Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 830

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Author: Tom Dalzell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317372514
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 15065

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Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang. Containing over 60,000 entries, this new edition of the authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge's own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English published sources given for each entry, often including an early or significant example of the term’s use in print. hundreds of thousands of citations from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, and songs illustrating usage of the headwords dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning New to this edition: A new preface noting slang trends of the last five years Over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia New terms from the language of social networking Many entries now revised to include new dating, new citations from written sources and new glosses The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.

Author: Pratt Institute. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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Author: Pratt Institute. Free Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 658

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A world list of books in the English language.