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You're All Talk
You're All Talk
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Word Perfect
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Collins English Dictionary
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Behold, America
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Fair Dinkum!
Fair Dinkum!
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My Grammar and I (Or Should That Be 'Me'?)
My Grammar and I (Or Should That Be 'Me'?)
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Schott's Significa
Schott's Significa
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The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered
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Oxford School Dictionary of Word Origins
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Thirty-Two Words for Field
Thirty-Two Words for Field
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Culture
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The Dictionary People
The Dictionary People
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Index, A History of the
Index, A History of the
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The Language Game
The Language Game
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The Etymologicon
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Once upon a Prime
Once upon a Prime
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The Fairy Tellers
The Fairy Tellers
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Murli la
Murli la
by Ngarukuruwala Women's Group and Genevieve Campbell
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The Illustrated Etymologicon
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A Place for Everything
A Place for Everything
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Bookish Words and Their Surprising Stories
Bookish Words and Their Surprising Stories
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Proto
Proto
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A Little Book of Language
A Little Book of Language
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Wheelock's Latin, 7th Edition
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The Pocket Scottish English
The Pocket Scottish English
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The Pocket Aussie English
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The Pocket Geordie English
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The Pocket Cockney Rhyming Slang
The Pocket Cockney Rhyming Slang
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The Dictionary People
The Dictionary People
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An Emotional Dictionary
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Grandiloquent Words
Grandiloquent Words
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Historical Linguistics and Endangered Languages
Historical Linguistics and Endangered Languages
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The True Blue Guide to Australian Slang
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Scots Dictionary
Scots Dictionary
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The Origin of Names, Words and Everything in Between
The Origin of Names, Words and Everything in Between
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Between Form and Faith
Between Form and Faith
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Beginning Biblical Hebrew - A Grammar and Illustrated Reader
Beginning Biblical Hebrew - A Grammar and Illustrated Reader
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Perspectives on Teaching Language and Content
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History of English
History of English
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Cambridge English Empower Intermediate Workbook with Answers with Downloadable Audio
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Essential Grammar in Use with Answers
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Linguistic Ethnography
Linguistic Ethnography
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A Thesaurus of Medical Word Roots
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American English File: Level 1: Student Book
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The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Typology
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