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Here, there and everywhere : essays upon language / by Eric Partridge.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection EC9 P2588 950h
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Partridge, Eric, 1894-1979.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language.
- Penn Provenance:
- Partridge, Eric, 1894-1979 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 188 pages ; 19 cm
- Manufacture:
- Frome and London : Made and printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner Ltd.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Hamish Hamilton, [1950]
- Contents:
- Foreword
- Dictionary anti-nationals
- We are 'the' people
- Inseparable nicknames
- The word 'bloody'
- Euphemism and euphemisms
- Slang and standard English
- Soldiers' slang of three nations: 1914-1918
- Spivs and phoneys
- American name into American word
- The language of the underworld
- Parlyaree
- Brobdingnag and Lilliput
- The debt of English to South America
- The nonsense words of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll.
- Notes:
- With a half-title.
- "First published in 1950 by Hamish Hamilton Ltd."
- Price from dust-jacket: 8s. 6d. net.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has dust-jacket retained.
- Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Eric Partridge, 5 May 1950.
- Culture Class Collection copy has marginal ms. annotations and textual corrections.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 5094969
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