Slang & dialect humour books

Throughout history, events great and small have left their mark on the way we speak. Columbus's discovery of America...  Read More >>

A collection of words used by Australians at war - a dictionary complete with information about meaning, origins...  Read More >>

The ultimate guide to contemporary Australian English, this is a major revision now available in the handy thumb...  Read More >>

Compiled by Dakota language teachers and students, this book provides students of Dakota the proper conjugations...  Read More >>

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This is a major revision of this landmark Australian dictionary that was first published in 1999. TheAustralian...  Read More >>

Offering a survey of long history of English from its embryonic stages to the language spoken today in England and...  Read More >>

Presents the great and glorious events in Bristle's past, illustrated with line drawings and historical photographs....  Read More >>

A celebration of the rich Suffolk dialect. The text and cartoons from Richard Scollins provide a feast of linguistic...  Read More >>

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Containing a striking array of words the students of Berkeley High have identified as part of the cultural and linguistic...  Read More >>

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Helps a Portuguese traveler to: insult a barber ('What news tell me? All hairs dresser are newsmonger'), complain...  Read More >>

Dr. Privitera demonstrates that Scilian is not a dialect nor a corruption of Italian. He argues that Sicilian is...  Read More >>

This new reference is a collection of words that are associated in different ways with South Australia--those in...  Read More >>

Devised to meet the particular needs of native English speakers, this book and its two companion CDs provide a complete...  Read More >>

This is a survey of English both as a pre-eminent world language and as an increasingly divergent language. It...  Read More >>

A comprehensive collection of fighting words and war time phrases Americans have used from the Civil War to the...  Read More >>

A dictionary of special days and annual customs set in historic, religious or social contexts, it includes over...  Read More >>

A Game of Mirrors compares, contrasts, and analyzes the lexicon of race and ethnicity in the Spanish, Portuguese,...  Read More >>

HEINLE'S NEWBURY HOUSE DICTIONARY focuses on what English language learners need and want to know. To help students...  Read More >>

This is a practical and entertaining guide for sorting out the differences between American and British English....  Read More >>

Provides an authentic record of current English from the Caribbean archipelago, Guyana and Belize. Drawing its data...  Read More >>

"The method and plan of this dictionary of Jamaican English are basically the same as those of the ""Oxford English...  Read More >>

A nostalgic A-Z of rude words, childish insults and curses; also includes full rules of how to play British Bulldog...  Read More >>