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Eric Partridge
Born
in Gisborne, New Zealand
December 13, 1901
Died
June 01, 1979
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Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English
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1942
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62 editions
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Shakespeare's Bawdy
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1948
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53 editions
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Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
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1958
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30 editions
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
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1936
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47 editions
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Dictionary of the Underworld
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1950
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35 editions
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Slang To-Day and Yesterday
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1933
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29 editions
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You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies (Volume 0)
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1953
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27 editions
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A Dictionary of RAF Slang
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1945
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4 editions
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The Penguin Dictionary Of Historical Slang
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A Dictionary of Catch Phrases
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1986
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27 editions
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“War…next to love, has most captured the world’s imagination” – Eric Partridge, famous lexicographer and author who served in the Australian Imperial Force during WWI”
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“To be mulcted of our money and mutilated of our property is serious enough: to be deprived of our colon would be intolerable.”
― You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies
― You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies
“When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist regards the ability to play with crossed hands: many of us, when we are older, regard it as a proof of literary skill, maturity, even of sophistication: and many, whether young, not so young, or old, employ it gauchely, haphazardly or, at best, inconsistently.”
― You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies
― You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies
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