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NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERS The Comic Latin Grammar: A New And Facetious Introduction To The Latin Tongue This book is a …

From 'trabs' for trainers to 'Z-Cars' for the police, understand both the roots and key words of one of England's most widely recognised dialects. It's said that Scouse, with its …

For thirty years Jonathon Green has been collecting slang the indefinable language of the gutter, the brothel, the jail, the barroom producing a succession of dictionaries, …

We use them every day, some of us more than others. They make our conversations colourful and interesting, loud and bright, rich and rare... and sometimes seemingly foreign or …

This insightful study proposes a unified theory of speech through which conflicting ideas about language might be understood. It is founded on a number of key points, such as the …

What is Humor? HUMOUR (British English) HUMOR (AMERICAN ENGLISH)] - Humor is something that is funny, comical, or amusing Definition of 'Humorous Words' -- Words that are …

The current book intends to provide a flexible and comprehensive bibliographical tool to those scholars working or interested in Irish English. A whole range of references (approx. …

Archaeology and Language IV examines a variety of pressing issues regarding linguistic and cultural change. It provides a challenging variety of case-studies which demonstrate how …

This book looks at native speaker varieties of English, considering how and why they differ in terms of their pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and spelling. It shows how the …

Looking at the sexual metaphors that are so pervasive in American culture, such as: "jock"; "tool"; "shooting blanks"; and "gang bang", this work argues that men are trapped and …