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That's the Ticket for Soup! Victorian Views on Vocabulary as Told in the Pages of "Punch"
ISBN: HB: 9781851245529, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2020
120 pp., 21x16.1 cm, 34 black&white illus.
The vocabulary of past times, no longer used in English, is always fascinating, especially when we see how it was pilloried by the satirists of the day. Here we have Victorian high and low society, with its fashionable and unfashionable slang, its c...
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£14,99
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Real McCoy and 149 other Eponyms
ISBN: HB: 9781851244980, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2018
144 pp., 18.4x11.8 cm
The English language is rich with eponyms – words that are named after an individual – some better known than others. This book features 150 of the most interesting and enlightening specimens, delving into the origins of the words and describing the...
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Ware's Victorian Dictionary of Slang and Phrase
ISBN: PB: 9781851244485, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2015
288 pp., 19.6x12.8 cm
Acutely aware of the changes in English usage at the close of the Victorian era, the lexicographer James Redding Ware (1832-1909) decided to record for posterity new and archaic words and phrases from all walks of life, from the curses in common use...
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Barrel of Monkeys A Compendium of Collective Nouns for Animals
ISBN: HB: 9781851244454, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2015
144 pp., 17x11 cm, 110 black&white illus.
We're all familiar with "a flock of sheep" but what are the collective nouns for racehorses, pigs, zebras or giraffes? Drawing on a range of sources, from fifteenth-century hunting terms to more recent inventions that have now entered the language, t...
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First English Dictionary 1604 Robert Cawdrey's "A Table Alphabeticall"
ISBN: PB: 9781851243884, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2015
160 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm
Here is a real treat for lovers of English – the very first dictionary in our language. Contrary to popular opinion, this honour goes not to Samuel Johnson, whose definitive tome appeared in 1755, but to Robert Cawdrey, who published his "Table Alpha...
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£8,99
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Latin Inscriptions in Oxford
ISBN: PB: 9781851244300, Bodleian Library Publishing, May 2015
104 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm
For the first six centuries from the institution's foundation, Latin was the language spoken and written at the University of Oxford. It's no surprise, then, to find that the inscriptions carved into the monuments, colleges and municipal buildings of...
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