Originally published: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950. xv, 804 pp. Reprint of the second ed...

Which is preferred - nom de plume, pseudonym, or pen name? What are neologisms, disguised conjunc...

Dictionary of Catch Phrases

Demons, devils, spirits and vampires are present throughout popular Western culture in film, musi...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extre...

First published in 1942, this dictionary was designed to help civilians and members of H.M. force...

This standard work on punctuation has long been judged the foremost study of the subject. It reve...

From abdabs to zitFrom pillock (14th century) to couch potato (20th century)From She'll be apples...

A catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has `caught on' or become p...

This classic of Shakespeare scholarship begins with a masterly introductory essay analysing and e...

This classic work fully explains the whole range of sexual, scatological language and allusion in...

To what degree does violent rhetoric shape belief and values? How might we understand the social ...