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Forget the boring stuff you learned in school. Heres the REAL skinny on Irish history.

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A chirpy little A to Z pocket book of choice Australian slang words and expressions. Everyday Aussie speech is peppered with words and phrases whose arcane meanings are understood only by the initiated, and this book sets out to demystify these colourful colloquialisms for both local and overseas readers.

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This dictionary brings together a colourful collection of colloquialisms from Down Under, including humorous rhyming slang, inventive insults and comical curses. Celebrating a distinctive and often irreverent language, Australian Slang is a ripper of a read that will delight visitors from OS, as well as true-blue Aussie blokes and sheilas.

(Paperback, 3rd edition)

This book describes the origins and usage of words ranging from Anzac to mulga, from kangaroo to sool. In covering the terrain from Georgian convict slang to contemporary Australian idioms the author describes the way we talk about food, sport, plants, animals, men, women and children.

(Paperback, 2nd New edition)

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Melvyn Bragg's fascinating biography of the English language

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Get started learning strine, the unique language of s'traya, with this handy guide. You're a bee's dick away from becoming a cheeky little possum.

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This pocket glossary is intended for quick and easy reference; it's a portable cockney kit.

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From 'Howay, man!' to 'Haddaway!' become fluent in Geordie.

This compact, handy book will help you to understand the English of the northeast.

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A charming introduction to the variety and richness of the English spoken in Ireland, giving both English-Irish and Irish-English glossaries.

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A concise and entertaining guide to England's Scouse dialect, spoken in Liverpool and surrounding areas.

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The prime minister speaks of core and non-core election promises, your boss asks you to commit to an involuntary career event (you're fired), and hospitals refer to negative patient outcomes (you're dead). How to fight back This book is a heavy weapon against politicians, managers and all those whose words kill brain cells and sink hearts.

(Paperback, 7th Edition)

The classic, single-volume introductory Latin textbook, introduced in 1956 and still the bestselling and most highly regarded textbook of its kind--now in its seventh edition.

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(Paperback, NIPPOD)

An investigation of academic vocabulary in the International Corpus of Learner English.

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(Hardback, 2nd edition)

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In this text, Hebrew language scholars outline views on the phenomenon of variation in biblical Hebrew and its significance for biblical studies. An important question that is addressed is whether "late biblical Hebrew" is a distinct chronological phase within the history of biblical Hebrew.

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Provides an examination of the Hebrew word BMH in biblical and post-biblical passages where it supposedly carries its primary topographical sense. This book focuses on its likely Semitic and unlikely Greek cognates, pertinent literary, compositional, and text-critical matters, and the ideological and iconographical ambiance of each occurrence.

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One of the main focuses is on the adopted post-medieval and pre-modern Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi homelands of Eastern Europe.

The book emphasizes the role of ludic or playful modifications of a language's structures at the colloquial level as sources of linguistic change.

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Focuses on the histories and principles of comparing and contrasting Chinese and Western languages, specifically English. This book provides a survey of contrastive linguistics in China, and is of interest to academics interested in contrastive linguistics or Chinese linguistics.

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This reference book provides concise definitions of the contemporary meaning of each eponym or allusion, followed by a detailed explanation of the events that gave rise to it. More than 600 entries encompass allusions and eponyms from all eras of history.