Title: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
Author: Capt. Francis Grose
Keys: slang, idiom
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes: B6
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Title: A Dictionary of Catch Phrases
Author: Eric Partridge
Keys: words; idiom
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes: 5
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Title: A Dictionary of Forces Slang 1939-1955
Author: Eric Partridge
Keys: slang
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
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Title: A Dictionary of the English Language (7th ed)
Author: Samuel Johnson (1785 ed)
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes:
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Title: A Grammar of Style
Author: A.E. Darbyshire
Keys: usage; grammar
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
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Title: A History of English in its Own Words
Author: Carver
Keys: words; history
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 5
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Title: A History of Modern Colloquial English
Author: Wyld (Fisher Unwin 1920)
Keys: language history
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
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Title: A History of Reading
Author: Alberto Manguel
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
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Title: A History of the English Language
Author: Baugh & Cable (Routledge 1993)
Keys: language history
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 6A
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Title: A Mouthful of Words
Author: Anthony Burgess
Keys: linguistics
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
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Title: A New Testament Word-Book
Author: Eric Partridge
Keys: etymology and usage
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 4A
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Title: A Popular Dictionary of Australian Slang
Author: Baker
Keys: words; slang
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 2
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Title: A Wealth of Words
Author: Fowler and Russell
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 1
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Title: A Word in Edgeways
Author: Ivor Brown
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 1
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Title: A Word in Your Ear
Author: Philip Howard
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 6
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Title: Adjectives and other Words
Author: Ernest Weekley
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 1
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Title: Adventuring Among Words
Author: Partridge
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
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Title: All Trivia
Author: Pearsall-Smith
Keys: miscellaneous
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 1
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Title: Ambrose Bierce
Author: Richard O’Connor
Keys: epigrams
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
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Title: America in so many Words
Author: David K Barnhart, Allan A Metcalf
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
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Title: American English
Author: Albert H Marckwardt
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 4
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Title: An Anthology of Invective and Abuse
Author: Kingsmill
Keys: language; quotations; insults
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 2
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Title: An Etymological Dictionary
Author: Ernest Weekley
Keys: words; etymology
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 6
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Title: An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
Author: Ernest Weekley
Keys: etymology
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes: 6A
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Title: An Exaltation of Larks
Author: Lipton
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 5
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Title: Aussie English
Author: John O’Grady
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 2
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Title: Aussie Talk
Author: Macquarie
Keys: words, slang
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3A
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Title: Australia Speaks
Author: Baker
Keys: words; language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 2
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Title: Australian English
Author: Ramson
Keys: words, australian english, slang
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
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Title: Australian Underworld Slang
Author: Simes
Keys: words; slang
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
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Title: Australian Words and their Origins
Author: Oxford
Keys: words; etymology
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 5
—
Title: Bloomsbury Dictionary of Differences
Author: Laurence Urdang
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 6
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Title: Bloomsbury Dictionary of Difficult Words
Author: Laurence Urdang
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 6
—
Title: Bloomsbury Thesaurus
Author: Bloomsbury (1993)
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
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Title: Book of Insults and Irreverent Quotations
Author: Hook and Kahn
Keys: quotations; language; insults
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 2
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Title: Book of Words
Author: Ivor Brown
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 1
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Title: Breaking Priscian’s Head
Author: J.Y.T Greig
Keys: dialect, pronunciation
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
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Title: Brewers Dictionary of Names
Author: Brewer
Keys: etymology words
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes:
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Title: British and American Usage since 1900
Author: Partridge and Clarke
Keys: language; american english; usage
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 4
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Title: Browser’s Dictionary
Author: Ciardi
Keys: words; etymology
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 4
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Title: Cassell Dictionary of Insulting Quotations
Author: Jonathon Green
Keys: quotations
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes:
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Title: Cassell’s Book of Humourous Quotations
Author:
Keys: quotations; language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
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Title: Caught in the Web of Words
Author: Murray
Keys: biography; language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 4
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Title: Caxton and his World
Author: N.F. Blake
Keys: printing
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
—
Title: Chamber of Horrors
Author: Vigilans (foreword by Eric Partridge)
Keys: barbarisms
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
—
Title: Chambers Thesaurus
Author:
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
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Title: Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary (1951)
Author: dictionary
Keys:
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes:
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Title: Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary (1993)
Author: dictionary
Keys:
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes:
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Title: Changing English
Author: Potter
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
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Title: Chasing the Sun
Author: Jonathon Green
Keys: lexicography
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
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Title: Chomsky
Author: Lyons
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 1
—
Title: Chosen Words
Author: Ivor Brown
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 1
—
Title: Colins Dictionary of Literary Quotations
Author:
Keys: quotations
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
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Title: Comfortable Words
Author: Bergen Evans
Keys: words; usage
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 3A
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Title: Complete Plain Words
Author: Gowers (HMSO 1955)
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 4
—
Title: Complete Plain Words
Author: Gowers (Pelican 1958)
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 1
—
Title: Concise Dicdionary of Twenty Languages
Author: Bergman
Keys: dictionary
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes:
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Title: Curious Words
Author: Leslie Dunkling
Keys: words; etymology
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 5
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Title: Currnet English Usage
Author: Frederick T Wood, RH Flavell, LM Flavell
Keys: usage,grammar
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes:
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Title: Cynic’s Lexicon
Author: Green
Keys: quotations
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
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Title: Death Sentence
Author: Don Watson
Keys: management speak; misuse of language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
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Title: Devil’s Dictionary
Author: Bierce
Keys: quotations
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes:
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Title: Devious Derivations
Author: Hugh Rawson
Keys: etymology
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes: 5A
—
Title: Dictionaries American and English
Author: J.R. Hulbert
Keys: lexicography
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
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Title: Dictionary of Austral English
Author: Morris
Keys: dictionary, australian english
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 3A
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Title: Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms
Author: Wilkes
Keys: dictionary
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 5
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Title: Dictionary of Biographical Quotation
Author: Wintle and Kenin (eds)
Keys: quotes
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes:
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Title: Dictionary of Cliches
Author: Eric Partridge
Keys: cliche, idiom
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes:
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Title: Dictionary of Dates
Author: Rhys (ed)
Keys: miscellaneous
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
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Title: Dictionary of English Idioms
Author: Harrap
Keys: idiom
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 5
—
Title: Dictionary of Eponyms
Author: Manser
Keys: eponyms words etymology
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 2
—
Title: Dictionary of Fictional Characters
Author: Freeman
Keys: miscellaneous
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 2
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Title: Dictionary of Historical Slang
Author: Partridge (Penguin)
Keys: slang
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes: B6
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Title: Dictionary of Idioms
Author: Flavell
Keys: idiom
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 5
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Title: Dictionary of Modern Phrase
Author: Graeme Donald
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes:
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Title: Dictionary of Musical Quotations
Author: (Wordsworth Library)
Keys: quotations
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
—
Title: Dictionary of New Words
Author: Jonathon Green
Keys: dictionary
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes:
—
Title: Dictionary of New Words
Author: Jonathon Green
Keys: neologisms
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes: B6
—
Title: Dictionary of Phrase and Allusion
Author: Rees
Keys: idiom allusion
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 5
—
Title: Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins
Author: William and Mary Morris
Keys: etymology, idiom
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes:
—
Title: Dictionary of Word Origins
Author: Ayto
Keys: etymology
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 6
—
Title: Dictionary of Word Origins
Author: Jordan Almond
Keys: etymology
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes: 5A
—
Title: Dictionary of Word Origins
Author: Linda and Roger Flavell
Keys: words; etymology
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 5
—
Title: Dictionary of Wordmakers
Author: Hunt
Keys: eponyms etymology
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 2
—
Title: Dictionary of Words Facts and Phrases
Author: Eliezer Edwards
Keys: etymology; origins
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes:
—
Title: Digger Dialects
Author: WH Downing (ed by JM Arthur & WS Ramson)
Keys: Australian English, slang
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3A
—
Title: Dimboxes Epopts and other Quidams
Author: Grambs
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 6
Notes: 6
—
Title: Dinkum Dictionary
Author: Johansen
Keys: dictionary
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes:
—
Title: Disorderly Discourse – Narrative, Conflict and Inequality
Author: Charles L Briggs
Keys: language and discourse
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
—
Title: Doublespeak
Author: William Lutz
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 4A
—
Title: Encyclopaedia of Phrases and Origins
Author: Crowther
Keys: etymology
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 6
—
Title: English – a Course for Human Beings
Author: Partridge (Macdonald 1955)
Keys: grammar
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
—
Title: English Biblical Translation
Author: A.C. Partridge
Keys: usage
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
—
Title: English Colloquial Idioms
Author: Wood
Keys: idiom
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 5
—
Title: English Idioms and How to Use Them
Author: W. McMordie
Keys: idiom
Alpha Y/N: &Y
—
Title: English Idioms and How to Use Them
Author: W. McMordie
Keys: idiom
Alpha Y/N: &Y
—
Title: English our English (and how to sing it)
Author: Keith Waterhouse
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
—
Title: English Past and Present
Author: Trench
Keys: language, history
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 1
—
Title: English Synonyms Explained
Author: Crabb
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 6
—
Title: English Transported
Author: W.S. Ramson
Keys: Australian English usage
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 4
—
Title: Enlarged Devil’s Dictionary
Author: Bierce
Keys: quotations
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes:
—
Title: Eric Partridge in his Own Words
Author: David Crystal (ed)
Keys: language; words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
—
Title: Essays on Language and Usage
Author: Dean & Wilson (ed)
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3; sections on: dictionaries words and meanings; the history of english; the structure of english; usage; and style.
Includes Orwell’s essay on Politics and the English Language
—
Title: Et Cetera Et Cetera
Author: Lewis Thomas
Keys: etymology; words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 6
—
Title: Euphemisms
Author: John Ayto
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 5
—
Title: Fair of Speech: The uses of Euphemism
Author: Enright
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 5
—
Title: Falling into Language
Author: Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Keys: language; poetry
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3A
—
Title: Fighting Words
Author: Christine Ammer
Keys: words; language
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 4
—
Title: Five Hundred Years of Printing
Author: Steinberg
Keys: printing
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 4
—
Title: Forgotten English
Author: Jeffrey Kacirk
Keys: etymology, social history
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
—
Title: Forked Tongues
Author: Graham Jones
Keys: euphemism, lies, excuses
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 5
—
Title: Freedom of Speech
Author: Eric Barendt
Keys: free speech, censorship, obscenity
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
—
Title: Genderspeak
Author: Elgin (John Wiley 1993)
Keys: language; gender-bias
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 6
—
Title: Glancing Blows
Author: Buzo
Keys: language; australian english
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 6
—
Title: Good English Guide
Author: Godfrey Howard
Keys: words; usage
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 5
—
Title: Good Writing Guide
Author: Nick Renton (The Business Library1997)
Keys: grammar, usage
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
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Title: Grooming Gossip and the Evolution of Language
Author: Robin Dunbar
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 4A
—
Title: Growth and Structure of the English Language
Author: Jesperson
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 1
—
Title: Guinness Book of Poisonous Quotes
Author: ed Colin Jarman
Keys: quotes
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
—
Title: Handbook of English Fundamentals
Author: Emery, Kierzek and Lindblom
Keys: grammar, usage
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 4
—
Title: Harmless Drudges
Author: Israel Schenker
Keys: dictionaries; words; lexicography
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
—
Title: Having the Last Word
Author: Ivor Brown
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 1
—
Title: Heavens to Betsy
Author: Funk
Keys: words; idiom; etymology
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 5
—
Title: Here There and Everywhere
Author: Partridge
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 1
—
Title: History in English Words
Author: Barfield
Keys: words; etymology
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 5
—
Title: Hue and Cry to Humble Pie
Author: Judy Parkinson
Keys: idiom
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes:
—
Title: I Break my Word
Author: Ivor Brown
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 1
—
Title: Idiom Savant
Author: Jerry Dunn
Keys:idiom
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes:
—
Title: In a Word
Author: Ernst and Thurber
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 5
—
Title: In Other Words
Author: C.J Moore
Keys: foreign words
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes:
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Title: Johnson’s Dictionary and the Language of Learning
Author: DeMaria
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 2
—
Title: Johnson’s Dictionary: a Modern Selection
Author: McAdam & Milne (ed)
Keys: dictionary
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes:
—
Title: Joysprick
Author: Anthony Burgess
Keys: language of James Joyce
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
—
Title: Just Another Word
Author: Ivor Brown
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 1
—
Title: Keywords
Author: Williams
Keys: words; language development
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 6
—
Title: Language
Author: Rod Mengham
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 6
—
Title: Language – Its Nature Develpoment and Origins
Author: Jesperson
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 2
—
Title: Language and Learning
Author: Britton
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 1
—
Title: Language and the Pursuit of Truth
Author: John Wilson
Keys: language, philosophy
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 1
—
Title: Language in Action
Author: Hayakawa
Keys: language; words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 2
—
Title: Language in Danger
Author: Andrew Dalby
Keys:
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: language; development and disappearances of languages
—
Title: Language in History
Author: Harold Goad
Keys: language, history
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 1
—
Title: Language in the Modern World
Author: Simeon Potter
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 1
—
Title: Language in Thought and Action
Author: S.I. Hayakawa & Basil Pillard
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 2
—
Title: Language Made Plain
Author: Anthony Burgess
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: B6
—
Title: Language Made Plain
Author: Burgess
Keys: linguistics
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
—
Title: Language Truth and Logic
Author: Ayer
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 1
—
Title: Language: The Loaded Weapon
Author: Dwight Bolinger
Keys: usage
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 4A
—
Title: Law in Shakespeare
Author: Cushman K Davis
Keys:
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: use of legal terms in Shakespeare’s plays
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Title: Law Words
Author: Centre for Plain Legal Language
Keys: words; legal
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 6A
—
Title: Le Mot Juste
Author: Ehrlich
Keys: words; foreign phrases; dictionary
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 6
—
Title: Liberty and Language
Author: Geoffrey Sampson
Keys: linguistics
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3A
—
Title: Linguistics
Author: David Crystal (Penguin 1971)
Keys: linguistics
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
—
Title: Linguistics at Large
Author: Minnis (ed)
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 2
—
Title: Loose Cannons and Red Herrings
Author: Claiborne
Keys: idiom; etymology
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 5
—
Title: Made in America
Author: Bryson
Keys: language; american english
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 6
—
Title: Magill’s Quotations in Context
Author: Magill
Keys: quotations
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
—
Title: Mankind Nation and the Individual
Author: Jesperson
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 1
—
Title: Manual of English Grammar and Composition
Author: Nesfield
Keys: grammar
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 4
—
Title: Mastering English Grammar
Author: Burton
Keys: grammar
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 4
—
Title: Metaphors We Live By
Author: George Lakoff & Mark Johnson
Keys: language, metaphor
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:4A
—
Title: Mind your Language
Author: Ivor Brown
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 1
—
Title: Moder English Usage (3rd edn)
Author: Fowler (ed Burchfield)
Keys: usage, grammar, language
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes: 4
—
Title: Modern American Usage
Author: Horwill
Keys: language, american english; usage
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 4
—
Title: Modern Australian Usage
Author: Hudson
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 4
—
Title: Modern English Usage
Author: Fowler
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 4
—
Title: Modern English Usage
Author: Fowler (Gowers edn)
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 4
—
Title: Modern Linguistics
Author: Simeon Potter
Keys: linguistics
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
—
Title: Mother Tongue: The English Language
Author: Bryson
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 1
—
Title: Mrs Byrne’s Dictionary of Unusual Obscure and Preposterous Words
Author: Josefa Heifetz Byrne
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 4
—
Title: My Word
Author: Jeans
Keys: etymology; words
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 6
—
Title: Name into Word
Author: Partridge (Secker & Warburg 1950)
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
—
Title: Name into Word – a discursive Dictionary
Author: Partridge (Secker & Warburg 1950)
Keys: etymology
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 2
—
Title: New Words for Old
Author: Philip Howard
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 6
—
Title: Nineteen Eightyfour
Author: George Orwell
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
—
Title: No Idle Words
Author: Ivor Brown
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 1
—
Title: Noblesse Oblige
Author: Mitford (ed)
Keys: language; words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 1
—
Title: Oddities and Curiosities of Language
Author: Bombaugh
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
—
Title: Old and Middle English
Author: T.L. Kington Oliphant
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
—
Title: On The Study of Words
Author: Trench (revised by Mayhew)
Keys: etymology
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 1
—
Title: One Word and Another
Author: V.H. Collins
Keys: words; etymology
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 3A
—
Title: Origins
Author: Partridge
Keys: etymology
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 6
—
Title: Origins and Meanings of Popular Phrases and names
Author: Basil Hargrave
Keys: idiom
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes:
—
Title: Our Language
Author: Potter
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 1
—
Title: Oxford Companion to the English Language
Author: (ed Tom McArthur)
Keys: language; words
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 6
—
Title: Oxford Dictionary of New Words
Author: dictionary
Keys: dictionary; neologisms
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: B6
—
Title: Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (2nd ed)
Author:
Keys: quotations
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
—
Title: Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (3rd ed)
Author: quotations
Keys:
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
—
Title: Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed)
Author: dictionary
Keys: dictionary
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes:
—
Title: Payton’s Proper Names
Author: Payton
Keys: etymology
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 2
—
Title: Pedigree: Words from Nature
Author: Stephen Potter and Laurens Sargent
Keys: etymology; word origins from natural phenomena
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 4A
—
Title: Penguin Dictionary of Surnames
Author: etymology
Keys:
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes:
—
Title: Plain Language for Lawyers
Author: Michael Asprey
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
—
Title: Points of View
Author: Burchfield
Keys: language; usage
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 6
—
Title: POSH
Author: Michael Quinion
Keys: word origins and myths; idiom
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes:
—
Title: Puns
Author: Walter Redfern
Keys:
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: puns, verbal and visual
—
Title: Reflections on Language
Author: Chomsky
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 2
—
Title: Right Words
Author: Murray-Smith
Keys: words, australian usage
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 2
—
Title: Roget’s Thesaurus
Author:
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
—
Title: Romance of Words
Author: Ernest Weekley
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 1
—
Title: Say the Word
Author: Ivor Brown
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 1
—
Title: Scorn with added Vitriol
Author: Mathew Parris
Keys: language; quotations; insults
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 1
—
Title: Selected Writings of Otto Jespersen
Author: Jespersen
Keys: language, semantics, etymology, grammer, change
Alpha Y/N: N
Notes:
—
Title: Shades of Meaning
Author: Samuel R Levin
Keys: synonyms, semantics
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes:
—
Title: Short History of the Printed Word
Author: Warren Chappell
Keys: printing; language history
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 4
—
Title: Shorter Oxford English Dictionary
Author: dictionary
Keys:
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes:
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Title: Simpsons Contemporary Quotations
Author: Simpson and Boorshin
Keys: quotations
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
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Title: Slang and Euphemism
Author: Richard A Spears
Keys: slang
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes:
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Title: Slang Down the Ages
Author: Jonathon Green
Keys: words; slang
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
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Title: Something about Words
Author: Ernest Weekley
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 1
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Title: Speaking Freely – A Guided Tour of American English
Author: Stuart Berg Flexner and Anne H Soukhanov
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
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Title: Spelling
Author: G H Vallins
Keys: spelling
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
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Title: Straight and Crooked Thinking
Author: Thouless
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 1
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Title: Studies in Words
Author: CS Lewis
Keys: language, usage
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
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Title: Subtext
Author: Fast
Keys: language; communication
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 2
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Title: Superior Person’s Little Book of Words
Author: Bowler
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 5
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Title: Sweet’s Anglo-Saxon Primer
Author: Sweet (revised by Norman Davis)
Keys: early English
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 4
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Title: Tautology
Author: Buzo
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 5
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Title: That Takes the Cake
Author: R Brasch
Keys: etymology
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 5
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Title: The A – Z of Non-sexist Language
Author: Margaret Doyle
Keys: gender-bias; language; words
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 6
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Title: The American Language
Author: Mencken
Keys: language; american english
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 4
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Title: The Art of Plain Talk
Author: Flesch
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 2
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Title: The Ascent of Babel
Author: Gerry T M Altmann
Keys: psycholinguistics
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
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Title: The Australian Language
Author: Baker
Keys: words; language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 2
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Title: The Australian Way with Words
Author: Harris
Keys: words, australian english
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3A
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Title: The Best English
Author: GH Vallins
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
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Title: The Book of Babel
Author: Nigel Lewis
Keys: words; metaphor
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 6
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Title: The Cambridge Australian English Style Guide
Author: Pam Peters
Keys: usage
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes:
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Title: The Cynic’s Dictionary
Author: Rick Bayan
Keys: aphorisms
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes:
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Title: The Dictionary of Contemporary Slang
Author: Tony Thorne
Keys: slang
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes:
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Title: The Dictionary of Australian Quotations
Author: Murray-Smith
Keys: quotations
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
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Title: The Dictionary of Diseased English
Author: Hudson (Macmillan 1978)
Keys: words; language
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 5
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Title: The Dictionary of Modern Phrase
Author: Graeme Donald
Keys: idiom, neologism
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes: B6
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Title: The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Author: Brewer
Keys: words; miscellaneous
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes:
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Title: The Drum
Author: Baker
Keys: words; language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 2
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Title: The Elements of Legal Writing
Author: Martha Faulk and Irving Mehler
Keys: language; style
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 6A
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Title: The Elements of Style
Author: Strunk and White
Keys: usage; language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 4
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Title: The Endangered English Dictionary
Author: David Grambs
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes:
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Title: The English Language
Author: Burchfield
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
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Title: The English Language
Author: David Crystal
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 5
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Title: The English Language
Author: Ernest Weekley
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
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Title: The English Language
Author: W.F. Bolton and David Crystal
Keys: language; words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 1
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Title: The English Language
Author: Wrenn
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
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Title: The F Word
Author: Jesse Sheidlower (ed)
Keys: slang, euphemism
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes:
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Title: The Gentle Art of Lexicography
Author: Partridge (Deutsch 1963)
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
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Title: The Handbook of Non-sexist Writing
Author: Casey Miller and Kate Swift
Keys: gender-bias; language; words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 6
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Title: The Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordnarily Literate
Author: Eugene Ehrlich
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes:
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Title: The History of English
Author: McCrum Cran McNeil
Keys: language history
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 4
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Title: The History of the English Language
Author: Emerson
Keys: language history
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
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Title: The Household Dictionary of the English Language
Author: (William Collins & Co, approx 1880-1890)
Keys: dictionaries
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes: illustrated, said to be based on Johnson, Walker, Webster and Worcester; contains a history of the English language, (gives pronunciations ‘umour, ‘erb, but historic)
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Title: The Importance of Language
Author: Max Black (ed) (Prentice Hall 1962)
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 1
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Title: The King’s English
Author: Fowler
Keys: language; usage
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 4
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Title: The King’s English
Author: Kingsley Amis
Keys: usage
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes: 4
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Title: The Language Instinct
Author: Steven Pinker
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
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Title: The Left Handed Dictionary
Author: Leonard Louis Levinson
Keys: words, cynicism
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes: B6
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Title: The Life and Times of the English Language
Author: Claiborne
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N: 4
Notes:
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Title: The Little Book of Aussie Insults
Author: Robert Treborlang
Keys: quotations; insults
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes: 2
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Title: The Little Book of Famous Insults
Author: Ramsey (ed)
Keys: quotations; language; insults
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 2
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Title: The Loom of Language
Author: Hogben (ed)
Keys: languages
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 2
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Title: The Lost Beauties of the English Language
Author: Charles Mackay
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes:
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Title: The Making of English
Author: Henry Bradley
Keys: language, etymology
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
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Title: The New First Aid in English
Author: Angus MacIver
Keys: vocabulary, grammar
Alpha Y/N: N
Notes:
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Title: The Origins and Development of the English Language
Author: Thomas Pyles and John Alego
Keys: language history
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3A
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Title: The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
Author: (ed) JA Simpson
Keys: proverbs
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 1
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Title: The Penguin Dictionaary of Proverbs
Author:
Keys: proverbs
Alpha Y/N: &Y
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Title: The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Words
Author: Saussy
Keys: dictionary
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 6
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Title: The Penguin Rhyming Dictionary
Author:
Keys: rhyme
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 1
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Title: The Penguin Working Words
Author:
Keys: words; usage
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 5
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Title: The Ploitically Incorrect Phrasebook
Author: Nigel Rees
Keys: language, humour
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 4A
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Title: The Power of Babel
Author: John McWhorter
Keys: languages
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
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Title: The Private Lives of English Words
Author: Heller Humez and Dror
Keys: etymology
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 5
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Title: The Queen’s English
Author: Arnold Wall
Keys: language; usage
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 6
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Title: The Queen’s English
Author: Harry Blamires
Keys: usage; language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 6
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Title: The Slang Thesaurus
Author: Jonathon Green
Keys: slang
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes: B6
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Title: The Spell of Words
Author: Levitt
Keys: words; language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 6
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Title: The State of the Language
Author: Philip Howard
Keys: words; language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 6
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Title: The State of the Language
Author: Ricks and Michaels (ed)
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 6; essays on contemporary language and usage
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Title: The Story of Language
Author: Pei
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 2
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Title: The Story of the Alphabet
Author: Edward Clodd
Keys: language development
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 4
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Title: The Surgeon of Crowthorne
Author: Simon Winchester
Keys: dictionaries
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: an account of the contributions of W.C. Minor to the Oxford English Dictionary
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Title: The Treasure of Our Tongue
Author: Lincoln Barnett
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 2
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Title: The Tyranny of Words
Author: Chase
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 2
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Title: The Use of English
Author: Quirk
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 1
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Title: The Word Museum
Author: Jeffrey Kacirk
Keys:
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: words; archaic words
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Title: The Words We Use
Author: J.A. Sheard
Keys: language development
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
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Title: The Words we Use
Author: Robert Lord
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 5
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Title: The Wordsworth Book of Intriguing Words
Author: Paul Hellweg
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 6; a collection of words from various obscure aspects of life, including ‘manias, various acronyms, etc
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Title: Thereby Hangs a Tale
Author: Funk
Keys: words; idiom; etymology
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 5
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Title: Thesaurus of American Slang
Author: Robert Chapman
Keys: slang; language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: B6
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Title: Thesaurus of Quotations
Author: Fuller
Keys: quotations
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
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Title: They Have a Word for It
Author: Howard Rheingold
Keys: gap words, vocabulary
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes:
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Title: Trash Cash Fizzbos and Flatliners: a Dictionary of Today’s Words
Author: Sid Lerner (Houghton Mifflin 1993)
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: B6
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Title: Tudor to Augustan English
Author: A.C. Partridge
Keys: usage
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
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Title: Twentieth Century Speeches
Author: Brian MacArthur
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: B6
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Title: Uncumber and Pantaloon
Author: Gillian Edwards
Keys: idiom etymology
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 5
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Title: Universal Etymological English Dictionary
Author: Nathaniel Bailey (London 1752)
Keys: dictionary
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 6A
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Title: Unlocking the English Language
Author: Burchfield
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 2
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Title: Usage and Abusage
Author: Partridge
Keys: usage; language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 4
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Title: Using Words
Author: John Casson
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 6A
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Title: Vocabula Unbound
Author: Robert Hartwell Fiske (ed)
Keys:
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: language; idiom; usage; words
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Title: Voices of Man
Author: Pei
Keys: language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 1
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Title: Walker’s Dictionary
Author: Walker (1828)
Keys: dictionary
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 6A
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Title: Weasel Words
Author: Don Watson
Keys: management speak; misuse of language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
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Title: Weasel Words
Author: Philip Howard
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 6
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Title: Weeds in the Garden of Words
Author: Kate Burridge
Keys:
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: history of language; idiom
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Title: What a Word
Author: A.P. Herbert
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 1
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Title: What’s the Difference
Author: Norman Moss
Keys: words; american english
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 4
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Title: What’s the Word
Author: Safire
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
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Title: When a Loose Cannon…
Author: Olivia Isil
Keys: idiom
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes: 6
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Title: When Words Lose Their Meaning
Author: White (University of Chicago Press 1989)
Keys: linguistics
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 2
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Title: Why Do We Say…
Author: Nigel Rees
Keys: idiom
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 3A
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Title: Winged Words
Author: Philip Howard
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 6
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Title: Word Origins
Author: Wilfred Funk
Keys: etymology, idiom
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes: 6
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Title: Wordpower
Author: Edward de Bono
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
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Title: Words – an Illustrated History of Western Languages
Author: Victor Stevenson (ed)
Keys: words; etymology
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 6A
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Title: Words about Words
Author: Smith and Exel
Keys: etymology and philology
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
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Title: Words Ancient and Modern
Author: Ernest Weekley
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 1
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Title: Words and Idioms
Author: Pearsall Smith
Keys: words; idiom
Alpha Y/N
Notes: 5
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Title: Words and Rules
Author: Stephen Pinker
Keys: linguistics, language change
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
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Title: Words and their Ways in English Speech
Author: Greenough and Kittredge
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 2
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Title: Words and Ways of American English
Author: Pyles
Keys: words; language
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 4
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Title: Words and Women
Author: Casey Miller and Kate Swift
Keys: gender-bias; language; words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 6
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Title: Words Fail Me
Author: Philip Howard
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes:
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Title: Words from History
Author: Asimov
Keys: etymology
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 6
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Title: Words in Everyday Life
Author: Brook (Macmillan 1981)
Keys: words; etymology
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 5
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Title: Words in our Time
Author: Ivor Brown
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 1
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Title: Words in Season
Author: Ivor Brown
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 1
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Title: Words in Sheep’s Clothing
Author: Pei
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 6
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Title: Words in the Making
Author: Vallins
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 1
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Title: Words in Time
Author: Geoffrey Hughes
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 5
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Title: Words of Wisdom
Author: William Safire
Keys: quotations
Alpha Y/N: &Y
Notes: 3
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Title: Words on Words
Author: David Crystal and Hilary Crystal
Keys: words, quotations
Alpha Y/N: Y
Notes:
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Title: Words Words Words
Author: Peterson
Keys: language; australian english
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 4
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Title: Wordstruck
Author: MacNeil (Faber & Faber 1989)
Keys: biography
Alpha Y/N:
Notes:
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Title: Wordwatching
Author: Julian Burnside
Keys:
Alpha Y
Notes: language; idiom; usage; words
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Title: World of Words
Author: Partridge
Keys: words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 3
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Title: Worldly Wise
Author: McDonald
Keys: etymology; words
Alpha Y/N:
Notes: 6
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