Dialect, Slang & Jargon
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Doric For Beginners: Illustrated guide to the Doric dialect spoken in North East Scotland
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Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
Oxford University PressCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Drawing on the unique resources of the Oxford English Dictionary and offering coverage of over 6,000 slang words and expressions from the Cockney '...
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Lexical Variation and Attrition in the Scottish Fishing Communities
Lisa BonniciCurrent price €90.47Original price €103.99This title deals with dialect death and the attrition of specifically local lexis in traditional dialects. Over the last half century many scholars...
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Japanese Slanguage: A Fun Visual Guide to Japanese Terms and Phrases
Mike EllisCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99Current price €14.39Original price €15.99Save 10% -
Spanish Slanguage: A Fun Visual Guide to Spanish Terms and Phrases
Mike EllisCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99Current price €14.39Original price €15.99Save 10% -
French Slanguage: A Fun Visual Guide to French Terms and Phrases
Mike EllisCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99Current price €14.39Original price €15.99Save 10% -
Straight From The Fridge Dad: New Edition
Max DecharneCurrent price €22.13Original price €26.99Containing thousands of examples of hipster slang drawn from pulp novels, classic noir and exploitation films, blues, country and rock''n''roll lyr...
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Learn 101 Jerriais Verbs in 1 Day: With LearnBots
Rory RyderCurrent price €15.65Original price €17.99The colour coded verb table allows the reader to focus all of their attention on one colour tense at a time enabling them to make immediate connect...
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It''s All Greek: Borrowed Words and their Histories
Alexander TullochCurrent price €17.58Original price €18.50Most of us are aware that words such as geometry, mathematics, phobia and hypochondria derive from ancient Greek, but did you know that marmalade, ...
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Rhyme over Reason: Phonological Motivation in English
Reka BenczesCurrent price €108.29Original price €113.99We are fascinated by what words sound like. This fascination also drives us to search for meaning in sound - thereby contradicting the principle of...
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The Book of Feckin'' Irish Slang that''s great craic for cute hoors and bowsies
Colin MurphyCurrent price €11.89Original price €13.99New edition of this bestselling and laugh out loud humour title. The almost incomprehensible wit and wonder of Irish slang words. Can you tell yo...
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Listening to the Past: Audio Records of Accents of English
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €86.12Original price €98.99Audio recordings of English are available from the first half of the twentieth century and thus complement the written data sources for the recent ...
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Talk More. Say Less. Get Ahead.: The Business Speak Dictionary
HarperCollins PublishersCurrent price €11.89Original price €13.99ADOPT THE LANGUAGE OF LEADERS Whether youre new to the world or work, or you just want to brush up on your leader...
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The Slang Dictionary - Etymological, Historical and Anecdotal - A New Edition - Revised and Corrected, With Many Additions.
AnonCurrent price €14.43Original price €18.50Current price €14.43Original price €18.50Save 22% -
Hybridity in Londonstanis Italian Translation
Valeria MonelloCurrent price €62.63Original price €71.99This volume investigates how fictional literary varieties and characterising discourse in a literary text can be translated and reproduced in the t...
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Will I Ever Pee Alone Again?: Poems for mums
Emma ConwayCurrent price €12.79Original price €15.99There''s a pyjama-clad woman from Brum,She''s a mostly-happy (sometimes-snappy) mum,She''s written some verse- it''s a little perverse -and she hop...
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Language!: Five Hundred Years of the Vulgar Tongue
Jonathon GreenCurrent price €30.88Original price €32.50In this richly entertaining book, Jonathon Green traces the development of slang and its trajectory through society, and offers an impassioned argu...
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Soldier and Sailor Words and Phrases
Edward FraserCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99This book was first published in 1925 and was intended to be a dictionary of first world war slang. In the 1920s, the war to end all wars was still...
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Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat: Naval slang and its everyday usage
Martin RobsonCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99This book explores the nautical history of some of our most common expressions in an entertaining and informative volume. As the crow flies'', ''c...
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What They Didn''t Teach You in German Class: Slang Phrases for the Cafe, Club, Bar, Bedroom, Ball Game and More
Daniel ChaffeyCurrent price €17.58Original price €18.50Current price €17.58Original price €18.50Save 5% -
The Sociopragmatics of Attitude Datives in Levantine Arabic
Youssef A. HaddadCurrent price €77.42Original price €88.99Examines the social functions of attitude dative pronouns in four Arabic dialects Analysing data from a variety of sources, including soap operas, ...
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The Wee Book of Irish Wit & Malarkey: A Rake of Clever Craic and Wisdom for Jackeens, Culchies and Eejits
Paul RyanCurrent price €11.69Original price €14.99The Irish mix wit and wisdom the way they do whiskey and water, and to the same intoxicating effect. Irish wit is an art form that can be sage, ...
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The Stories of Slang: Language at its most human
Jonathon GreenCurrent price €13.93Original price €16.99''If you''re up for an adventure through the back alleys of English, The Stories of Slang will not disappoint.'' Kory Stamper, Times Literary Suppl...
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Idle Thoughts & Other Stuff
Jack IdleCurrent price €11.61Original price €13.99The book is a collection of adapted humour inspired by other writers, interspersed with some original texts and a handful of philosophical views, m...
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Idle Thoughts & Other Stuff
Jack IdleCurrent price €19.08Original price €22.99The book is a collection of adapted humour inspired by other writers, interspersed with some original texts and a handful of philosophical views, m...
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The Singlish Controversy: Language, Culture and Identity in a Globalizing World
Lionel WeeCurrent price €102.59Original price €113.99Singlish is the colloquial variety of English spoken in Singapore. It has sparked much public debate, but so far the complex question of what Singl...
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The First English Dictionary of Slang 1699
B. E. GentCurrent price €15.19Original price €15.99Written originally for the education of the polite London classes in canting the language of thieves and ruffians should they be so unlucky as to...
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Jamaican Word Dictionary: & Short Stories About Language
Deeta S. JohnsonCurrent price €7.30Original price €8.90The Jamaican patois is spoken all over the world, wherever Jamaicans get together for a chat or a song. It contains elements of African languages, ...
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Dirty Korean: Everyday Slang from ''What''s Up?'' to ''F*%# Off''
Haewon Geebi BaekCurrent price €17.58Original price €18.50Current price €17.58Original price €18.50Save 5% -
Issues in Scottish Vowel Quantity
Slawomir ZdziebkoCurrent price €43.49Original price €49.99This book primarily provides a detailed description and interpretation of one of the most fascinating and poorly understood processes in English ac...
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