All my eye and Betty Martin
Roy Harris, 1 December 1983
A Dictionary of Mottoes
by L.G. Pine.
Routledge, 303 pp., £9.95, October 1983,9780710093394 Show More
by L.G. Pine.
Routledge, 303 pp., £9.95, October 1983,
Newspeak: A Dictionary of Jargon
by Jonathon Green.
Routledge, 263 pp., £9.95, October 1983,0 7100 9685 2 Show More
by Jonathon Green.
Routledge, 263 pp., £9.95, October 1983,
The Oxford Miniguide to English Usage
by E.S.C. Weiner.
Oxford, 412 pp., £1.95, October 1983,0 19 869127 0 Show More
by E.S.C. Weiner.
Oxford, 412 pp., £1.95, October 1983,
The Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English: Volume II
by A.P. Cowrie, R. Mackin and I.R. McCaig.
Oxford, 685 pp., £12.50, October 1983,0 19 431150 3 Show More
by A.P. Cowrie, R. Mackin and I.R. McCaig.
Oxford, 685 pp., £12.50, October 1983,
A Dictionary of the Teenage Revolution and its Aftermath
by Kenneth Hudson.
Macmillan, 203 pp., £12.95, October 1983,0 333 28517 4 Show More
by Kenneth Hudson.
Macmillan, 203 pp., £12.95, October 1983,
A Dictionary of Catch-Phrases
by Eric Partridge.
Routledge, 278 pp., £5.95, October 1983,0 7100 9989 4 Show More
by Eric Partridge.
Routledge, 278 pp., £5.95, October 1983,
“... the psychology of motto-bearing too. Why, one wonders, does Newquay Urban District Council have a Cornish motto which is either obscene or incomprehensible? (Tight-lipped Pine says darkly, ‘Untranslatable at present’: we look forward with bated breath to future editions.) So many and varied are the available fields for a modern lexicographer to plunder ... ”