Partridge, Eric 1894-1979

Usage and abusage : a guide to good English by Eric Partridge( Book )

291 editions published between 1942 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 3,090 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Usage and Abusage is a classic that has stood up well to the passage of time. But language does evolve over the years, and new problems (such as the use of "hopefully") and current topics (such as "sexism") have engendered a whole new vocabulary, which cannot be omitted from any book discussing the English of the 1990s. In this new edition, Janet Whitcut has revised Partridge's popular reference book to reflect the language of well-informed writers, readers, and speakers today. In addition, she has added a section to the book entitled Vogue Words, which includes words such as "crash" "symbiotic," and "viable" that have acquired a power and an influence beyond those that they originally possessed. Usage and Abusage wittily attacks linguistic abusage of all kinds and offers constructive advice on the proper use of English

A dictionary of slang and unconventional English; colloquialisms and catch-phrases, solecisms and catachreses, nicknames, vulgarisms, and such Americanisms as have been naturalized by Eric Partridge( Book )

157 editions published between 1937 and 1982 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,056 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

V. 1. The dictionary.--v. 2. The supplement

Origins; a short etymological dictionary of modern English by Eric Partridge( Book )

133 editions published between 1958 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 2,782 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This classic etymological dictionary provides information on the evolution and development of the 12,000 most commonly used words and sub-entries that bring the totla number to 20,000

A dictionary of catch phrases, British and American, from the sixteenth century to the present day by Eric Partridge( Book )

110 editions published between 1971 and 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,562 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An abridged version of Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Catch Phrases, concentrating on those phrases in current use in the English-speaking world

Shakespeare's bawdy : a literary & psychological essay and a comprehensive glossary by Eric Partridge( Book )

98 editions published between 1947 and 1969 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,806 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This unusual and invaluable contribution to Shakespearean scholarship is a thorough examination of the "bawdy" in Shakespeare's works from the literary, psychological and lexicographical standpoints. Scholars and intelligent readers and interpreters of Shakespeare have always been aware of the large number of bawdy references throughout his plays and poems, but even they probably have not fully comprehended the wealth of hidden allusion and multiple meanings in many seemingly obvious passages

Slang to-day and yesterday, with a short historical sketch and vocabularies of English, American and Australian slang by Eric Partridge( Book )

79 editions published between 1933 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,748 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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 quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork

A dictionary of clichés : with an introductory essay by Eric Partridge( Book )

103 editions published between 1930 and 2000 in English and German and held by 1,393 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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 formidable list, amplified as it is with definitions, sources, and indications of the cliches, venerability in every case

A dictionary of slang and unconventional English : colloquialisms and catch-phrases, solecisms and catachreses, nicknames, and vulgarisms by Eric Partridge( Book )

39 editions published between 1937 and 1984 in English and held by 1,388 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

On t.p.: Colloquialisms and catchphrases, solecisms and catachreses, nicknames, and vulgarisms

A dictionary of the underworld : British & American, being the vocabularies of crooks, criminals, racketeers, beggars and tramps, convicts, the commercial underworld, the drug traffic, the white slave traffic, spivs by Eric Partridge( Book )

84 editions published between 1949 and 2015 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,210 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The new Partridge dictionary of slang and unconventional English by Eric Partridge( Book )

11 editions published between 2006 and 2013 in English and held by 1,149 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Terms of selection, with Partridge's original limitation to Great Britain now expanded to encompass the broader English-speaking world, partly in recognition of the growing importance of American slang. The only real departure from Partridge's broad use-based criteria for selection is a much diminished body of nicknames. Some work has been put into correcting Partridge's errors in dating, but detailed research was not possible for every entry. Finally, having noted in their introduction