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Words and Descriptive Terms for """"Woman"""" and """"Girl"""" in French, Provencal, and Border Dialects

Words and Descriptive Terms for """"Woman"""" and """"Girl""""...

Author: George C. S. Adams
ISBN: 9780807890110
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Using W. Von Wartburg's critical bibliography of dialect and patois as a key reference, this work brings together...  Read More >>

The New Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume 4: Britain, Ireland and Europe

The New Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume...

Author: Raymond Hickey (University of Limerick)
ISBN: 9781009205825
Format: Hardback
$362.25

This volume focuses on the vernacular forms of English found at various locations both in Britain and Ireland, as...  Read More >>

Language!: Five Hundred Years of the Vulgar Tongue

Language!: Five Hundred Years of the Vulgar Tongue

Author: Jonathon Green
ISBN: 9781848878990
Format: Paperback
$29.99

The entertaining, shocking and surprising story of slang, as told by Britain's foremost slang lexicographer.  Read More >>

The New Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume 5: North America and the Caribbean

The New Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume...

Author: Natalie Schilling (Georgetown University, Washington DC) ,  Derek Denis (University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9781009205764
Format: Hardback
$362.25

This volume examines the development of forms of English in North America from the earliest founder populations...  Read More >>

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