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Eric Partridge

Born: 1894

Died: 1979

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Born: 1894

Died: 1979

Books by Eric Partridge (50 max)

The concise Usage and abusage: a modern guide to good English.

1942

A dictionary of slang and unconventional English: colloquialisms and catch-phrases, solecisms and catachreses, nicknames, vulgarisms and such Americanisms as have been naturalized.

1900

A dictionary of the underworld British & American ; being vocabularies of crooks ,criminals, racketeers, beggars and tramps, convicts, the commerical underworld, the drug traffic, the white slave trade, spivs. --

1998

Eric Partridge, Eric Partridge

Origins: a short etymological dictionary of modern English.

1958

Shakespeare's bawdy: a literary & psychological essay and a comprehensive glossary

1947

Slang to-day and yesterday: with a short historical sketch and vocabularies of English, American and Australian slang.

1933

You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies

1953

The world of words: an introduction to language in general and to English and American in particular

1938

Smaller slang dictionary

1961

Name this child: a dictionary of modern British and American Christian names.

1936

A dictionary of clichés: with an introductory essay

1940

The French romantics' knowledge of English literature (1820-1848): according to contemporary French memoirs, letters and periodicals

1924

English: a course forhuman beings.

1949

A charm of words: essays and papers on language.

1960

Eighteenth century English romantic poetry: (up till the publication of the "Lyrical ballads," 1798).

1924

Literary sessions.

1932

British and American English since 1900

1951

A dictionary of catch phrases: British and American, from the sixteenth century to the present day

1977

Robert Eyres Landor: selections from his poetry and prose : with an introduction biographical, and critical.

1927

Words, words, words!

1933

A dictionary of cliches: With an introductory essay

1940

Name into word: proper names that have become common property; a discursive dictionary.

1949

The ʻ shaggy dogʼ story: its origin, development, and nature (with a few seemly examples)

1953

Comic alphabets: their origin, development, nature

1961

Eighteenth century English romantic poetry (Up till the publication of the 'Lyrical Ballads', 1798)

1924

Book of English Prose 1700-1914

1926

The three Wartons

1927

The first three years: an account and a bibliography of the Scholartis Press.

1930

Slang to-day and yesterday, with a short historical sketch and vocabularies of English, American, and Australian slang.

1933

A dictionary of slang and unconventional English slang -including the language of the underworld, colloquialisms and catch-phrases, solecisms and catachreses, nicknames, vulgarisms and such Americanisms ass have been naturalized

1937

New Testament Word Book: A Glossary

1940

A dictionary of abbreviations: with especial attention to war-time abbreviations

1943

A dictionary of RAF slang

1945

Journey to the edge of morning: thoughts upon books, love, life.

1946

From Sanskrit to Brazil: vignettes and essays upon languages.

1952

Notes on punctuation.

1955

English gone wrong.

1957

A first book of quotations

1958

Adventuring among words

1961

Name your child: a handy guide for puzzled parents.

1968

The Macmillan dictionary of historical slang

1974

A concise dictionary of slang and unconventional English: from a Dictionary of slang and unconventional English by Eric Partridge

1989

The concise new Partridge dictionary of slang and unconventional English

2007

Eighteenth century English romantic poetry (up till the publication of the "Lyrical ballads" 1789)

1924

A covey of Partridge: an anthology.

1937

Slang

1940

Shakespeare's bawdy a literary & psychological essay and a comprehensive glossary

1947

A dictionary of Forces' slang, 1939-1945

1948

Words at war, words at peace: essays on language in general and particular words.

1948

English - a course for human beings.

1949