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• Author(s): Eric Partridge • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralThis dictionary gives the origins of some 20,000 items from the modern English vocabulary, discussing them in groups that make clear the connections...

• Author(s): Eric Partridge | Eric Partridge • Publisher: Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. • Publisher Imprint: Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. • BISAC: GeneralOriginally published: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950. xv, 804 pp. Reprint of the second edition. T...

• Author(s): Eric Partridge • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralFirst published in 1942, this dictionary was designed to help civilians and members of H.M. forces to make their way amid t...

• Author(s): Eric Partridge • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralFirst published in 1942, this dictionary was designed to help civilians and members of H.M. forces to make their way amid t...

• Author(s): Eric Partridge • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Group • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralFirst published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring the langu...

• Author(s): Eric Partridge • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Writing - GeneralA catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has caught on' or become popular over along period of ti...

• Author(s): Eric Partridge • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralDrawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressions used or coined before 1914.

• Author(s): Eric Partridge • Publisher: Scarborough House Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Scarborough House Publishers • BISAC: Dictionaries

• Author(s): Eric Partridge • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFor ANYONE WHO IMAGINES THEMSELVES FLYING A SPITFIRE. Drop your visiting cards, put aside your beer-lever, stop being a half-pint hero and discover ...

• Author(s): Eric Partridge • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: JournalismDrawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressions used or coined before 1914.