Eric Partridge

57 published titles

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

1 edition

Here, there and everywhere : essays upon language

2 editions

Slang today and yesterday : with a short historical sketch and vocabularies of English, American and Australian slang

1 edition

A dictionary of cliche as, with an introductory essay

1 edition

Name this child : a dictionary of modern British and American given or Christian names

1 edition

From Sanskrit to Brazil : vignettes and essays upon languages

1 edition

You have a point there : a guide to punctuation and its allies

2 editions

The 'Shaggy Dog' story : its origin, development and nature ( with a few seemly examples )

1 edition

The concise "Usage and abusage" : a modern guide to good English

1 edition

Notes on punctuation

2 editions

Shakespeare's bawdy : a literary & Psychological essay and a comprehensive glossary

2 editions

What's the meaning? A book for younger people

1 edition

Usage and abusage : a guide to good English

6 editions

English gone wrong

1 edition

A first book of quotations

1 edition

Origins : a short etymological dictionary of modern English

3 editions

Name this child : a handy guide for puzzled parents

1 edition

A charm of words : essays and papers on language

1 edition

Smaller slang dictionary

4 editions

A dictionary of the underworld, British and American : being the vocabularies of crooks, criminals, racketeers, beggars and tramps, convicts, the commercial underworld, the drugtraffic, the white slav

1 edition

A dictionary of slang and unconventional English : colloquialisms and catch-phrases, solecisms and catachreses, nicknames, vulgarisms and such Americanisms as have been naturalized

2 editions

Adventuring among words

1 edition

Comic alphabets : their origin, development, nature

2 editions

The gentle art of lexicography as pursued and experience by an addict

1 edition

You have a point there : with a chapter on American practice

1 edition

The long trail : what the British soldier sang and said in the Great War of 1914-18

1 edition

A dictionary of slang and unconventional English : colloquialisms and catch-phrases,solecisms and catachreses,nicknames,vulgarisms and such Americanisms as have been naturalized. Vol.2, The supplement

1 edition

Name your child : a handy guide for puzzled parents

1 edition

A dictionary of the underworld,British & American : being the vocabularies of crooks,criminals,rackateers,beggars and tramps,convicts,the commercial underworld,the drug traffic,the white slave traffic

1 edition

The long trail: soldiers' songs and slang, 1914-18

(Contributor)

1 edition

Slang to-day and yesterday : with a short historical sketch and vocabularies of English, American and Australian slang

1 edition

A dictionary of historical slang

1 edition

The Routledge dictionary of historical slang

1 edition

A dictionary of catch phrases : British and American, from the sixteenth century to the present day

3 editions

You have a point there

1 edition

A dictionary of clichés : with an introductory essay

1 edition

Eric Partridge in his own words

1 edition

A dictionary of slang and unconventional English : colloquialisms and catch phrases, fossilised jokes and puns, general nicknames, vulgarisms and such Americanisms as have been naturalised

1 edition

A dictionary of slang and unconventional English : colloquialisms and catch phrases, fossilised jokes and puns, general nicknames, vulgarisms, and such Americanisms as have been naturalised

1 edition

A concise dictionary of slang and unconventional English : from A dictionary of slang and unconventional English by Eric Partridge

2 editions

A dictionary of RAF slang : with an introductory essay

1 edition

A dictionary of traditional first names

1 edition

Shorter slang dictionary

1 edition

Usage and abusage : a guide to good English : abusus non tollit usum

1 edition

The Wordsworth book of usage & abusage

1 edition

Pocket guide to English usage : a guide to good English : abusus non tollit usum

1 edition

The new Partridge dictionary of slang and unconventional English

2 editions

The concise new Partridge dictionary of slang and unconventional English

2 editions

The Daily Telegraph dictionary of Tommies' song and slang, 1914-18

(Contributor)

1 edition

Origins : an etymological dictionary of modern English

1 edition

The world of words : an introduction to language in general and to English and American in particular

1 edition

A dictionary of the underworld : British and American

1 edition

A dictionary of abbreviations : with especial attention to war-time abbreviations

1 edition

A new testament word book : a glossary

1 edition

Slang : to-day and yesterday

1 edition

Words, words words!

1 edition

Précis writing : passages judiciously selected with an introduction on the art of précis

1 edition