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Eric Partridge
From Teflpedia
Eric Partridge (1894 – 1979) was a New Zealand-born lexicographer of the English language, particularly of its slang. After studying at Oxford University, he was based in the United Kingdom.
Publications[edit | edit source]
- Slang Today and Yesterday (1933)
- Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (1937) Routledge & Kegan Paul
- From Sanskrit to Brazil Hamish Hamilton
- Here, There and Everywhere Hamish Hamilton
- Name into Word Secker & Warburg
- A Dictionary of Catch Phrases Routledge & Kegan Paul/Stein and Day
- A Dictionary of Clichés Routledge & Kegan Paul
- A Dictionary of RAF Slang Michael Joseph, 1945; new edition Pavilion Books, 1990 ISBN 978-1851455263
- Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
- Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (1958) Reprint: Greenwich House, New York, 1983 ISBN 0-517-41425-2. Reprint: Random House Value Publishing(1988)
- Shakespeare’s Bawdy London, Routledge & Kegan Paul (1947)/New York, E. P Dutton & Co. (1948), Reprint: Routledge (1991) ISBN 0-415-05076-6
- Slang Today and Yesterday. Routledge & Kegan Paul
- A Smaller Slang Dictionary
- You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and its Allies
- Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Books. Reprint: W. W. Norton & Company (1997) ISBN 0-393-31709-9
- Name This Child Hamish Hamilton
- Name Your Child Evans Bros
- Eric Partridge in His Own Words Edited by David Crystal 1980. Macmillan Publishing Co., New York ISBN 0-02-528960-8