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Butterfield, Jeremy. Damp Squid. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2008).

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Gooden, Philip. Faux Pas?: A No-nonsense Guide to Words and Phrases from Other Languages. London: A & C Black Publishers Ltd (2005).

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Nicolson, Adam. Power and Glory: Jacobean England and the Making of the King James Bible. London: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (2003).

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Poole, Steven. Unspeak. New York: Little Brown (2006).

Rosten, Leo. The New Joys of Yiddish. London: Arrow Books (2003).

Savan, Leslie. Slam Dunks and No-Brainers. New York: Alfred A. Knopf (2005).

Winchester, Simon. The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2003).