Biography - Partridge, Eric (1894-1979): An article ...
 Author: Gale Reference Team Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 7 Publication Date: 2007-01-01 Release Date: 2007-12-16 [... more]
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Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
Simply the best: If you have any interest at all in English etymology, you MUST HAVE THIS BOOK. Beg, borrow, bid, phone every used bookstore you can find -- do anything to get a copy of this book. This book is so good that when I came across a copy of it [... more]
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Shakespeare's Bawdy
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A Dictionary of Catch Phrases
Useful for advanced learners of English as a 2nd language: Typical Partridge : many translations of filmscripts into Spanish, TV soaps, etc, would have been better if they had consulted this one. Americans might find treatment of US catch phrases, or [... more]
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You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its ...
Author: Eric Partridge Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 425 EAN: 9780415050753 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0415050758 Number Of Pages: 244 Publication Date: 1978-01-26 [... more]
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Usage and Abusage (Penguin Reference Books)
Is this sentence correct?: Indespensible for anyone who wishes to write clearly and elegantly. But, in this age of email one has to wonder does anyone really care? Author: Eric Partridge Author: Janet Whitcut Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 420 [... more]
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Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English
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A Dictionary of Cliches
Amazon.com Review: Clichés, the "coin(s) so battered by use as to be defaced," are anathema to Eric Partridge. He says, "their ubiquity is remarkable and rather frightening," and while he likens proverbs to expressions of [... more]
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A Dictionary of Catch Phrases: American and British, ...
A page turner: Perhaps most readers don't think of a "Dictionary" as a page turner, but this volume should come w/ a warning: if you open this during some sort of serious scholarly pursuit, you WILL be distracted. As an editor, Paul Bell has [... more]
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A Dictionary of the Underworld: British & American : ...
Author: Eric Partridge Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 427.09 EAN: 9781584774440 ISBN: 1584774444 Number Of Pages: 804 Publication Date: 2004-11-30 [... more]
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English ...
The most entertaining of dictionaries: Both informative and fun to read, the Dictionary contains both definitions and word history for ALL levels of colloquial English. Unlike other dictionaries of the sort, it includes even words that were colloquial or [... more]
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Shakespeare's Bawdy (Routledge Classics)
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