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By Martin H. Manser and David Pickering

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A more-ishly browsable collection of words and phrases, linguistic quirks, lexical oddities and syntactic surprises. Our langauge is one of delight and curiosity. BUTTERING PARSNIPS, TWOCKING CHAVS is a guided tour of English, exploring the origins of words, their changing meaning,...

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Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0753824175

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