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A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words Volumes I and II
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Our Price: AU$42.50
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Published as a two volume set in 1878, this Dictionary comes with 'obsolete phrases, proverbs and ancient customs - from the 14th century to the 19th century'. This fascinating work contains a comprehensive dictionary (over 50,000 entries) of old and unusual regional words and phrases used across England, from medieval to Victorian times ...
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A User-Friendly Dictionary of Old English
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Our Price: AU$39.50
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This dictionary contains over 3500 of the most common worlds in Old English (Anglo-Saxon) and should be useful for beginners in translating simple passages of Old English prose and ...
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Discovering English Dialects
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Our Price: AU$12.95
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As long ago as the 1720s Daniel Defoe was pondering on the eccentricities of English dialects, and three hundred of so years before him John Trevisa had censured ...
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Mother Tongue: The English Language
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Our Price: AU$24.95
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In this book the author examines how a language 'treated for centuries as the inadequate and second-rate tongue of peasants' has now become to undisputed global language (more people learn ...
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The Slang Dictionary: Or The Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, and 'Fast' Expressions of High and Low Society
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Our Price: AU$25.00
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This fascinating book contains a comprehensive dictionary of slang words and phrases in use in mid-Victorian England, as well as a history of slang and cant. Published in 1865, this is a very useful reference guide for genealogy, social history and linguistics ...
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The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary
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Our Price: AU$19.95
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When a mysterious surgeon wrote to brilliant lexicographer James Murray offering help in compiling the first Oxford English Dictionary there began one of the most bizarre and intriguing literary friendships ...
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