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Angels, Barbarians, and Nincompoops : . . and a lot of other words you thought you knew


Esolen, Anthony M., author.
[Place of publication not identified] : TAN Books, [2018] 2018

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The Greek & Latin roots of English


Green, Tamara Marcus, 1944- author.
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 2014

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How to speak Brit : the quintessential guide to the King's English, Cockney slang, and other flummox


Moore, C. J. (Christopher J.), author.
New York : Gotham Books, 2014. 2014

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Inspired baby names from around the world : 6,000 international names and the meaning behind them


Shane, Neala, 1948-
Novato, California : New World Library, [2015] 2015

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The perfect English grammar workbook : simple rules and quizzes to master today's English language


McLendon, Lisa, author.
Berkeley, CA : Zephyros Press, [2017] 2017

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Quid Pro Quo : what the Romans really gave the English language


Jones, Peter, author
Atlantic Books, 2016. 2016

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Quranic Arabic : from its Hijazi origins to its classical reading traditions


Van Putten, Marijn, author.
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022] 2022

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Reading with my eyes open : embracing the critical and the personal in language pedagogy


Quist, Gerdi, author.
London : Ubiquity Press, 2013. 2013

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The reflexes of syllabic liquids in ancient Greek : linguistic prehistory of the Greek dialects and


Beek, Lucien van, author.
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022] 2022

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The story of be : a verb's-eye view of the English language


Crystal, David, 1941- author.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2017] 2017

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Take my word for it : a dictionary of English idioms


Liberman, Anatoly, author.
Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2022] 2022

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Talking turkey : a food lover's guide to the origins of culinary words and phrases


Hendrickson, Robert, 1933- author.
New York : Skyhorse Publishing, [2014] 2014

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A thesaurus of English word roots


Danner, Horace G., author.
Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, 2014. 2014

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The vulgar tongue : Green's history of slang


Green, Jonathon, 1948- author.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2015. 2015

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Words on the move : why English won't - and can't - sit still (like, literally)


McWhorter, John H., author.
New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2016. 2016

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Language Arts And Disciplines Linguistics General
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An admirable point : a brief history of the exclamation mark!


Hazrat, Florence, author.
Boston, Massachusetts : Godine, 2023. 2023

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