What is it to \"cock a snook\", where is the land of Nod, and who was first to go the extra mile? Find the answers to these questions (and many more!) in the new edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Idioms....

Take a fascinating journey from plastic (1909) to podcasting (2004). This vivid picture of the last 105 years is based on John Ayto\'s critically acclaimed Twentieth Century Words, and was published in hardback as Movers and Shakers: A chronology......

This in-depth exploration of the English language covers every nuance and curiosity of this constantly evolving linguistic pastiche. It is estimated that every year 800 neologisms are added to the English language, and include acronyms (NIMBY, Not In......

We are not tree to speak. Taboos regulate what we can talk about and what words we can use. In our discussions of scores of aspects of human life, from urination to defecation, through sacking an employee to killing people, we use soft or respectable vocabulary to disguise a reality that we would rather not face up to....

Seasoned generously with literary wit, The Diner\'s Dictionary is a veritable feast, tracing the origins and history of over 2,300 gastronomical words and phrases....

The Encyclopedia of Surnames is not just another dictionary! With entertaining coverage of more than 7,000 surnames listed alphabetically, it provides a complete and accessible companion to tracing the history of names....

A lively, authoritative, and up-to-date look at the world of rhyming slang, from its origins in London\'s 19th-century underworld to the buzzwords of 21st-century popney....

Publisher Comments: Did you know that \'flavor of the month\' originated in a marketing campaign in American ice-cream parlors in the 1940s, when a particular flavor would be specially promoted for a month at a time?...

Brewer\'s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable is one of the world\'s best-loved reference books....

From the naming of atomic energy in the 1900s to the flapper of the roaring twenties, and Beatlemania and miniskirts in the sixties right up to Britpop of the nineties, Oxford\'s language research programme has tracked new words and language change for over one hundred years....

Словарь содержит свыше 1200 слов английского языка, вошедших в употребление в 80-х годах. Даны их толкования и большой иллюстративный материал, состоящий из цитат, взятых из современной прессы англоязычных стран. ...

Drawing on the unique resources of the Oxford English Dictionary and offering coverage of over 6,000 slang words and expressions from the Cockney \"abaht\" to the American term \"zowie\", this is the most authoritative dictionary of slang from the 20th and 21st centuries....