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A Dictionary of Modern American Usage
PE2827 .G37 1998 Reference Coll
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Idiom Savant:Slang as it is Slung
Reference - PE2846 .D86 1997
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Oxford English Dictionary,[Print]1st edition, 2nd. edition
Reference - PE1625 .O87 1989
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English : Colloquialisms and Catch-phrases, Solecisms and Catachreses, Nicknames, and Vulgarisms
Reference - PE3721 .P3 1984
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Dictionary of American Regional English
Reference - PE2843 .D52 1985
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An etymological dictionary of the English language
Reference - PE1580 .S5 1898
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Barnhart dictionary of etymology
Reference - PE1580 .B35 1988
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Dictionary of word and phrase origins
Reference - PE1580 .M6
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The Oxford thesaurus
Reference - PE2832 .U7 1992
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The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
Reference - PE1580 .O5
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The Scottish National Dictionary- 10 vols.
Reference - PE2106 .S4
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Have a Nice Day--No Problem! : A Dictionary of Clichés
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Reference - PE1689 .A48 1992
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An American Dictionary of the English Language. By Noah Webster
Reference - PE1625 .W3
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Title
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Oxford English Dictionary
| The definitive dictionary of the English Language, including
comprehensive etymologies, first date of usage noted by excerpt
from attributed author. Incomparable
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PoemFinder
| A database of 600,000 poem citations (50,000 full-text). Allows
searching by title, author, first line, last line, words in text,
author's nationality, author's religion and subject just to name
a few
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Humanities Abstracts
| A general index for research in the humanities, including the
full-text of some scholarly journal titles.
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Periodical Contents Index(PCI)
| PCI Web is an electronic index to the contents of thousands
of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their
first issues to 1990/1991. Every article is indexed
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| Gale
Literary Index |
An index to the entries contained in the following Reference
sources (as well as others): Classical
and Medieval Literature Criticism, Contemporary
Authors, Contemporary
Literary Criticism, Dictionary
of Literary Biography, Literature
Criticism from 1400-1800, Nineteenth-Century
Literature Criticism, and Twentieth-Century
Literary Criticism |
| Print Indexes
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Humanities Index-Index Tables to the left of Reference Office
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Indexes scholarly journals prior to 1982
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