Dialect, slang & jargon books

From Today programme presenter and national treasure John Humphrys, the bestselling cry in book form for better...  Read More >>

This volume offers qualitative as well as corpus-based quantitative studies on grammatical variation in the British...  Read More >>

The second volume of this three-volume series provides a fascinating insight into the life, culture and society,...  Read More >>

For the first time in the history of Dutch dialectology, a detailed overview of the variation in the formation of...  Read More >>

Available in a Dutch and English Edition, the Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch Dialects (SAND) provides a detailed overview...  Read More >>

India's contact with the West has resulted in the distinctive vocabulary of Indian English. This easy to use dictionary...  Read More >>

First published in 1979, this book deals with the social and regional varieties of English in the British Isles....  Read More >>

From ambulance chaser to soot suit, this is an up-to-date dictionary of 20th-century slang. It is a comprehensive...  Read More >>

This volume celebrates the completion of the monumental Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue.  Read More >>

The English language varies in a number of ways, depending on the people who use it, how it is used and in what...  Read More >>

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""Heartland"" English is the first book-length scholarly treatment of English spoken in the Midwest, or the northern...  Read More >>

Gathers published articles on creole languages and their origins by John H McWhorter, a scholar in the field. This...  Read More >>

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Providing useful reading for students and researchers of world Englishes in the Asian context, this study of the...  Read More >>

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This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the First International Conference on English Historical...  Read More >>

Papers originally delivered at the 2nd Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Poznaan, Poland in Nov. 2003....  Read More >>

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A Sound Atlas of Irish English offers a unique and comprehensive audio overview of the English language as spoken...  Read More >>

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A celebration of all things shite about the misuse of English, highlighting the prevalence of absent apostrophes,...  Read More >>