Dialect, slang and jargon

Have you ever wondered where terms like 'end of your tether', 'gets my goat' or 'letting ones hair down' come from?

We use them every day, some of us more than others.

The Great Patriotic War (GPW) of the Soviet people against Nazi Germany, known in the West as the Eastern Front of WWII, continues to attract a number of military historians from different countries around the world.

Cockney is the dialect of East London.

'He's 100% political herpes.

The Great Patriotic War (GPW) of the Soviet people against Nazi Germany, known in the West as the Eastern Front of WWII, continues to attract a number of military historians from different countries around the world.

Visitors to New Zealand are frequently surprised - and puzzled - by local terms and expressions.

The Essential Lingo Dictionary is a warts-and-all look at the notoriously hilarious (and occasionally a little bit naughty) canon of Australian slang words and phrases, casting light on the quirky, intriguing and often bizarre Australian Aussie language.

If you've ever wondered why your girlfriend's a 'Sheila' even though her name is Kate, or why your friend in the outer suburbs of Sydney is said to live 'beyond the black stump', then this is the book for you!

The Godzone Dictionary is a concise A - Z of the words and phrases that make our New Zealand language and speech patterns so distinctive and individual, from Aotearoa and Avondale spiders to Zambuck and Zespri.

What Australian say - and what they really mean.

Doublespeak is the language of non-responsibility, carefully constructed to appear to communicate when it fact it doesn't.

This volume provides a much-needed, critical overview of the field of constructions and construction grammar in the context of Singapore English, and poses the question of identifying a construction in contact when the lexicon is derived from one language and the syntax from another.

Epic is dialectally mixed but Ionic at its core.

This edited collection presents papers relating to the state of the art in Perceptual Dialectology research.

Drop the textbook formality and chat with the locals in France's everyday language-from common words for meeting and greeting to colorful insults.

Learn all the sign language slang you've always wanted to know with this fun English-ASL phrasebook for the modern era.

First published in 1897, "e;A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant"e; includes definitions for a wide range of contemporary slang-English words, as well as those relating to American, Anglo-Indian slang, pidgin English, "e;gypsies' jargon"e;, and other interesting contemporary phraseology.

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This volume provides a much-needed, critical overview of the field of constructions and construction grammar in the context of Singapore English, and poses the question of identifying a construction in contact when the lexicon is derived from one language and the syntax from another.

This edited collection presents papers relating to the state of the art in Perceptual Dialectology research.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

This book draws on a framework of enregisterment and indexicality to chart the ways in which the Yorkshire dialect came to be associated with particular linguistic repertoires and social stereotypes from the nineteenth century through to today.

This book contains a detailed guide to the Cornish language.

'In terms of a non-fiction account of how historical and contemporary language has been shaped by women, I really recommend lexicographer Jonathon Green's Sounds and Furies'ELEY WILIAMS, author of The Liar's Dictionary'When it comes to distaff dirtiness, mainstream males such as Dickens and Dekker make easy pickings, but Green finds the greatest treasures when he mudlarks on the margins.

With an afterword by David Crystal and contributions from Philip Pullman, Jilly Cooper, Jeremy Vine and Meera Syal, all life is here.

Wherever you go in the English-speaking world, there are linguistic riches from times past awaiting rediscovery.

Some people say scohn, while others say schown.