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Dictionary of Effective Speech
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the …
Holy Terror
The authors of religious scriptures had little difficulty enhancing sacred narratives with the rhetoric of violence. The phenomenon continues in the habitual linkage of violence …
The Lure of the Dark Side
Demons, devils, spirits and vampires are present throughout popular Western culture in film, music and literature. Their religious significance has only recently begun to be …
You Have a Point There: a Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies
British and American English Since 1900
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the …
Words, Words Words!
First published in 1933 (this edition in 1939), this book sees Partridge introducing the reader to the eccentric lexicographers Wesley and Captain Grose. In an entertaining way, …
You Have a Point There
This standard work on punctuation has long been judged the foremost study of the subject. It reveals punctuation to be both an indispensable craft and an invaluable art - a friend, …
A Dictionary of Cliches
This work is full of things better left unsaid: hackneyed phrases, idioms battered into senselessness, infuriating Gallicisms, once-familiar quotations and tags from the ancient …
Daily Telegraph Dictionary of Tommies' Songs and Slang, 1914-18,
During the First World War the British soldiers were renowned for their chirpy songs and plucky sayings. Indeed nothing would lift the spirits of the often exhausted and …
The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
Drawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressions used or coined before 1914.
A Dictionary of RAF Slang
The perfect stocking filler for anyone who imagines themselves flying a spitfire . . . Drop your visiting cards, put aside your beer-lever, stop being a half-pint hero and discover …