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How to Talk Like a Local
'Susie Dent is a national treasure' RICHARD OSMAN'Susie Dent is a one-off. She breathes life and fun into words and language' PAM …
Lmh Official Dictionary Of Jamaican Words And Proverbs
Full title: 'Official Dictionary of Jamaican Words and Proverbs'.
Dialect Matters
Based on Peter Trudgill's weekly column in the Eastern Daily Press newspaper, this book has two overall messages. The first is that language is a fascinating and enjoyable …
The Criminal Alphabet
The ultimate guide to the criminal world through its slang - from insults to terms of respect, weapons to injuries, crimes to punishment'I have spent almost 33 of the last 53 years …
Shorter Dictionary of Catch Phrases
An abridged version of Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Catch Phrases, concentrating on those phrases in current use in the English-speaking world. The rewritten entries are in an …
Estuary English as a Special Accent
Cockney Past and Present
Although Cockney can be considered to be one of the most important non-standard forms of English, there had been little to no scholarly attention on the dialect prior to William …
Flash Jim: The astonishing story of the convict fraudster who wrote Australia's first dictionary
The astonishing story of James Hardy Vaux, writer of Australia's first dictionary and first true-crime memoir If you wear 'togs', tell a 'yarn', call someone 'sly', or refuse to …
Nottinghamshire Dialect
Germanic 'Auslautgesetze'
The overall interpretation of Old Germanic phonology and morphology has much to gain from the recent and revolutionary views that were developed in its 'mother' discipline, …