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Publisher: Oxford University Press: June 2012
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ISBN: 019984092X
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By: Anthony Burgess
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Publisher: Quill: October 1994
Seller ID: 380757
ISBN: 068813789X
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By: Barbara Wallraff
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Publisher: Counterpoint: March 2005
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ISBN: 158243283X
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By: Boyd H. David
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Publisher: Macmillan Coll Div: January 1993
Seller ID: 269892
ISBN: 0023278854
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By: C.M. Millward
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Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing: January 1996
Seller ID: 378741
ISBN: 0155016458
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By: Castle Books
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Publisher: Booksales: September 2002
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ISBN: 0785816119
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By: Charles Barber
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press: March 2012
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ISBN: 1107693934
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Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div: January 1700
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ISBN: B014S2Y8T4
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By: David Crystal
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Publisher: Gardners Books: April 2004
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ISBN: 0713997524
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By: David Crystal
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press: May 1995
Seller ID: 373022
ISBN: 0521401798
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By: David Wilton
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: January 2004
Seller ID: 373029
ISBN: 0739455931
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By: Dianne McInnes
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Publisher: Pictorial Press Australia:
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ISBN: 1876561025
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By: E. M. Rickerson
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Publisher: Equinox Publishing: April 2012
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ISBN: 1908049499
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By: Edwin Newman
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Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill: October 1976
Seller ID: 170479
ISBN: 0672522675
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By: Eric Partridge
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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc: October 1990
Seller ID: 311937
ISBN: 0026053500
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By: Graeme Donald
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Publisher: Osprey Publishing: October 2008
Seller ID: 323088
ISBN: 1846033004
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Did you know they started 'hearing through the grapevine' during the American Civil War? It was a reference to the telegraph lines used for communicating with the army. These looked like twisted grapevines. And why does the phrase now suggest unreliable information? Because the lines were used by enemy troops to send false battle reports.
Similarly, 'deadline' has a rather disturbing and extremely sinister origin. Again originating in the American Civil War it refers to an actual line drawn in the dirt or marked by a fence around prisoners. If the prisoners crossed this line the guar...
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By: James Redfern
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Publisher: HBJ College & School Division: June 1970
Seller ID: 358157
ISBN: 0155296256
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By: Jeremy Campbell
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster: September 1973
Seller ID: 269063
ISBN: 0671440624
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By: John L. Locke
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Publisher: Harvard University Press: January 1993
Seller ID: 282125
ISBN: 0674116402
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Progressing gradually from babbling to meaningful sentences is something most babies do naturally. But why do they? John Locke's answer constitutes a fascinating journey along the path of language development, a tour that takes in all the stops--neurological and perceptual, social and linguistic--that mark the way to intelligible speech. A major synthesis of the latest research on early language acquisition, this volume revises the way we understand ourselves and our approach to speech.
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By: John McWhorter
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Publisher: The Great Courses: January 1994
Seller ID: 380788
ISBN: 1598034774
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