Partridge, Eric 1894-1979

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 )

289 editions published between 1937 and 1982 in 3 languages and held by 3,427 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

331 editions published between 1942 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 3,307 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

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

165 editions published between 1958 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 3,064 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 )

105 editions published between 1971 and 2000 in English and held by 2,598 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 )

164 editions published between 1947 and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,590 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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 Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. The main body of the work consists of an alphabetical glossary of all words and phrases used in a sexual or scatological sense, with full explanations and cross-references

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

68 editions published between 1979 and 2003 in English and Chinese and held by 2,018 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

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

143 editions published between 1930 and 2000 in 3 languages and held by 1,827 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

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

104 editions published between 1933 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,802 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

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

13 editions published between 2005 and 2013 in English and held by 1,193 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

The Macmillan dictionary of historical slang by Eric Partridge( Book )

82 editions published between 1972 and 2011 in English and German and held by 973 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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