Auteur: Eric Partridge

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This standard work on punctuation has long been judged the foremost study of the subject. It reveals punctuation to be both an indispensable craft and an invaluable art – a friend, not an enemy. …

A catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has `caught on’ or become popular over along period of time. It is often witty or philosophical and this Dictionary gathers toget …

This work is full of things better left unsaid: hackneyed phrases, idioms battered into senselessness, infuriating Gallicisms, once-familiar quotations and tags from the ancient classics. It makes a …

From abdabs to zit From pillock (14th century) to couch potato (20th century) From She’ll be apples (Australia) to the pits (USA) This new collection brings together some 5, 000 contemporary slang ex …

Drawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressions used or coined before 1914. …

This etymological dictionary gives the origins of some 20, 000 items from the modern English vocabulary, discussing them in groups that make clear the connections between words derived by a variety o …

This classic of Shakespeare scholarship begins with a masterly introductory essay analysing and exemplifying the various categories of sexual and non-sexual bawdy expressions and allusions in Shakesp …

This classic of Shakespeare scholarship begins with a masterly introductory essay analysing and exemplifying the various categories of sexual and non-sexual bawdy expressions and allusions in Shakesp …

This classic of Shakespeare scholarship begins with a masterly introductory essay analysing and exemplifying the various categories of sexual and non-sexual bawdy expressions and allusions in Shakesp …

From abdabs to zit From pillock (14th century) to couch potato (20th century) From She »ll be apples (Australia) to the pits (USA) This new collection brings together some 5, 000 contemporary slang e …

From abdabs to zit From pillock (14th century) to couch potato (20th century) From She »ll be apples (Australia) to the pits (USA) This new collection brings together some 5, 000 contemporary slang e …

A catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has `caught on » or become popular over along period of time. It is often witty or philosophical and this Dictionary gathers toge …

A catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has `caught on » or become popular over along period of time. It is often witty or philosophical and this Dictionary gathers toge …

This etymological dictionary gives the origins of some 20, 000 items from the modern English vocabulary, discussing them in groups that make clear the connections between words derived by a variety o …

This etymological dictionary gives the origins of some 20, 000 items from the modern English vocabulary, discussing them in groups that make clear the connections between words derived by a variety o …

This standard work on punctuation has long been judged the foremost study of the subject. It reveals punctuation to be both an indispensable craft and an invaluable art – a friend, not an enemy. …

This standard work on punctuation has long been judged the foremost study of the subject. It reveals punctuation to be both an indispensable craft and an invaluable art – a friend, not an enemy. …

This work is full of things better left unsaid: hackneyed phrases, idioms battered into senselessness, infuriating Gallicisms, once-familiar quotations and tags from the ancient classics. It makes a …

This work is full of things better left unsaid: hackneyed phrases, idioms battered into senselessness, infuriating Gallicisms, once-familiar quotations and tags from the ancient classics. It makes a …

Drawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressions used or coined before 1914. …

Drawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressions used or coined before 1914. …

First published in 1933 (this edition in 1939), this book sees Partridge introducing the reader to the eccentric lexicographers Wesley and Captain Grose. In an entertaining way, the book jovially exp …

First published in 1933 (this edition in 1939), this book sees Partridge introducing the reader to the eccentric lexicographers Wesley and Captain Grose. In an entertaining way, the book jovially exp …

First published in 1940, this book was designed by Eric Partridge to equip students, studying for final exams at school, with the tools they needed to become successful precis-ers. The selection of l …

First published in 1940, this book was designed by Eric Partridge to equip students, studying for final exams at school, with the tools they needed to become successful precis-ers. The selection of l …

First published in 1940, this book provides a literary dictionary to the New Testament. The treatment of selected words and phrases is not theological, but lexicographical and etymological. Each entr …

First published in 1940, this book provides a literary dictionary to the New Testament. The treatment of selected words and phrases is not theological, but lexicographical and etymological. Each entr …

First published in 1942, this dictionary was designed to help civilians and members of H.M. forces to make their way amid the jungle of wartime abbreviations. The preface notes that newspaper readers …

First published in 1942, this dictionary was designed to help civilians and members of H.M. forces to make their way amid the jungle of wartime abbreviations. The preface notes that newspaper readers …

First published in 1933, this book explores both contemporary and historical slang, focusing on the characteristics and quirks of the English and American languages. As well as looking at commonly us …

First published in 1933, this book explores both contemporary and historical slang, focusing on the characteristics and quirks of the English and American languages. As well as looking at commonly us …

First published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring the language of the criminal and near-criminal worlds. It includes entries from Australia, New Zealand …

First published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring the language of the criminal and near-criminal worlds. It includes entries from Australia, New Zealand …

First published in 1939, this book provides a brief but comprehensive view of language in general, and of English and American language in particular. It is suitable for beginners and those who wish …

First published in 1939, this book provides a brief but comprehensive view of language in general, and of English and American language in particular. It is suitable for beginners and those who wish …

First published in 1961, this book explores the form of the comic alphabet. Whether through poems, prose or phonetics, the alphabet has become a way in which mankind has taken pleasure in playing wit …

First published in 1961, this book explores the form of the comic alphabet. Whether through poems, prose or phonetics, the alphabet has become a way in which mankind has taken pleasure in playing wit …

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high qu …

This set reissues important selected works by Eric Partridge, covering the period from 1933 to 1968. Together, the books look at many and diverse aspects of language, focusing in particular on Englis …