A fascinating guide to English's exotic side...

From Oxford University Press, renowned for educational and reference works, comes this handy, concise guide to all things military.* Covers all conflicts involv

This new dictionary uncovers the origins of over 8,000 foreign words and phrases which are in general circulation in late twentieth-century English, including w

The Oxford English Dictionary is the internationally recognized authority on the evolution of the English language from 1150 to the present day. The Dictionary

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