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Acronyms, Initialisms and Abbreviations Dictionary
by
Gale (Editor)
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Adonis to Zorro
by
Andrew Delahunty; Sheila Dignen
Call Number: PN43 .D35 2010
CC Reference
Access via Oxford Reference Online
The Australian national dictionary : Australian words and their origins
by
Bruce Moore; Mark Gwynn; Amanda Laugesen; Julia Robinson
Call Number: PE3601.Z5 A865 2016
A Blake dictionary : the ideas and symbols of William Blake
by
S. Foster Damon; Morris Eaves (Contribution by)
Call Number: PR4146 .A24 2013
UL Reference
Access via Ebrary
The Cambridge Dictionary of Linguistics
by
Keith Brown; Jim Miller
Call Number: P29 .B76 2013
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The Chambers Thesaurus
by
Editors of Chambers
Call Number: PE1591 .C417 2012
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Class and Society in Shakespeare
by
Paul Innes; Innes
Call Number: PR3024 .I56 2007
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Collins COBUILD idioms dictionary
by
John Sinclair
Call Number: PE1464 .C66 2011
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Collins COBUILD phrasal verbs dictionary
Call Number: PE1319 .C64 2011
CC Reference
The complete concordance to Shakespeare : being a verbal index to all the passages in the dramatic works of the poet
by
Mary Cowden Clarke
Call Number: PR2892 .C5 1845
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Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World
by
Keith Brown (Editor-In-Chief); Sarah Ogilvie (Editor-In-Chief)
Call Number: P371 .C66 2009
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Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language and Linguistics
by
Alex Barber (Editor); Robert J. Stainton (Editor)
Call Number: P107 .C66 2010
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The Concise Thesaurus of Traditional English Metaphors
by
P. R. Wilkinson; Dick Wilkinson
Call Number: PE1689 .W56 2008
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Descriptionary : [a thematic dictionary]
Call Number: PE1591 .M415 2010
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Dictionary of American Idioms
by
Adam Makkai; M. T Boatner; J. E. Gates
Call Number: PE2839 .D5 2013
CC Reference
A dictionary of English affixes : their function and meaning
by
Gabriele Stein
Call Number: PE1175 .S74 2007
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A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology, 1450-2000
by
Peter Beal
Call Number: Z106.5.G7 B43 2008
UL Reference
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The dictionary of historical and comparative linguistics
by
R.L. Trask
Call Number: P143 .T73 2000
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A dictionary of Hong Kong English : words from the fragrant harbor
by
Patrick J. Cummings; Hans-Georg Wolf
Call Number: PE1068.H6 C855 2011
UL HK Studies, CC Reference
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A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics
by
David Crystal
Call Number: P29 .C65 2008
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A Dictionary of Literary and Thematic Terms
by
Edward Quinn
Call Number: PN44.5 .Q56 2006
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A dictionary of literary pseudonyms in the English language
by
T.J. Carty
Call Number: Z1065 .C37 2000
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A Dictionary of Literary Symbols
by
Michael Ferber
Call Number: PN56.S9 F47 2007
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Dictionary of Literature in English
by
Neil King; Sarah King
Call Number: PR19 .K56 2002
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A Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases
by
Christopher Corèdon; Ann Williams
Call Number: DA129 .C67 2004
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A Dictionary of Sociolinguistics
by
Joan Swann; Ana Deumert; Theresa Lillis; Rajend Mesthrie
Call Number: P40 .D477 2004
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A Dictionary of Stylistics
by
Katie Wales
Call Number: P301 .W35 2011
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Encyclopedia of Communication Theory
by
Stephen W. Littlejohn (Editor); Karen A. Foss (Editor)
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Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory
by
Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace (Editor)
Call Number: PN98.W64 E53 2009
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Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature
by
Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Call Number: PN471 .S58 2006
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The encyclopedia of Greek comedy
by
Sommerstein, Alan H.
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Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
by
Kimberly L. Meinken (Editor)
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The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory
by
Michael Ryan (General Editor); Gregory Castle (Volume Editor); Robert Eaglestone (Volume Editor); M. Keith Booker (Volume Editor)
Call Number: PN81 .E435 2011
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Encyclopedia of Literary Modernism
by
Paul Poplawski
Call Number: PN56.M54 E53 2003
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From bonbon to cha-cha : Oxford dictionary of foreign words and phrases
by
Andrew Delahunty (Editor)
Call Number: PE1582.A3 O94 2008
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A Glossary of Literary Terms
by
M. H. Abrams; Geoffrey Harpham
Call Number: PN44.5 .A2 2015
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Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature
by
Emer O'Sullivan
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Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater, 1930-2010
by
James Fisher
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Historical dictionary of science fiction cinema
by
Booker, M. Keith
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Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary
by
Christian Kay (Editor); Jane Roberts (Editor); Michael Samuels (Editor); Irené Wotherspoon (Editor)
Call Number: PE1591 .H55 2009
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Key Terms in Literary Theory
by
Mary Klages
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Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics
by
Jack Richards; Richard W. Schmidt
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McGraw-Hill Education - Essential ESL Dictionary
by
McGraw-Hill Education Editors
Call Number: PE1628 .M315 2015
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A medieval English-Latin dictionary : based on a set of unpublished 15th century manuscripts, Medulla grammaticae/Marrow of grammar, kept in the British Museum
by
Florent A. Tremblay
Call Number: PA2356 .T74 2009
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Messing about in quotes : a little Oxford dictionary of humorous quotations
by
edited by Gyles Brandreth
Call Number: PN6084.H8 M47 2018
Messing about in quotes : a little Oxford dictionary of humorous quotations
by
Gyles Brandreth (Editor)
Call Number: PN6084.H8 M47 2018
The Methuen Drama Dictionary of the Theatre
by
Jonathan Law (Editor)
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New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors
by
R. M. Ritter (Editor)
Call Number: PE1628 .O882 2014
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The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
by
Michael Dobson (Editor); Stanley Wells (Editor); Will Sharpe (Editor); Erin Sullivan (Editor)
Call Number: PR2892 .O94 2015
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The Oxford companion to the Brontës
by
Christine Alexander; Margaret Smith
Call Number: PR4168 .A3 2018
The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar
by
Bas Aarts; Sylvia Chalker; Edmund Weiner
Call Number: PE1097 .C436 2014
UL Reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation
by
David Crystal
Call Number: PR2892 .C77 2016
UL Reference
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
by
Elizabeth Knowles (Editor)
Call Number: PN6081 .O9 2014
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The Oxford encyclopedia of American literature
by
Jay Parini (Editor)
Call Number: PS21 .E537 2004
CC Reference
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Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
by
David Scott Kastan (Editor)
Call Number: PR19 .O95 2006
CC Reference
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Oxford ESL dictionary for learners of English : with Canadian content
by
Jennifer Bradbery, Victoria Bull, Diana Lea ; editors, Daniel Barron ... et al.
Call Number: PE1628 .O879 2012
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The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800
by
Jack Lynch (Editor)
Call Number: PR564 .O94 2016
The Oxford handbook of Shakespeare and embodiment : gender, sexuality, and race
by
Traub, Valerie
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Romanticism : keywords
by
Frederick Burwick
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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory
by
David Herman (Editor); Manfred Jahn (Editor); Marie-Laure Ryan (Editor)
Call Number: PN212 .R68 2008
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Shakespeare's Demonology : a dictionary
by
Marion Gibson; Jo Ann Esra
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Shakespeare and the Language of Food : a dictionary
by
Joan Fitzpatrick
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Shakespeares after Shakespeare : an encyclopedia of the Bard in mass media and popular culture
by
Richard Burt
Call Number: PR2880.A1 S48 2007
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Thesaurus of English Word Roots
by
Horace Gerald Danner
Call Number: PE1580 .D36 2014
UL Reference
To the point : a dictionary of concise writing
by
Robert Hartwell Fiske
Call Number: PE1464 .F57 2014
UL Reference
Webster's New World College Dictionary
by
Webster's New World College Dictionary Staff
Call Number: PE1628 .W5629 2014
UL Reference
Women in Shakespeare : a dictionary
by
Alison Findlay; Findlay
Call Number: PR2991 .F56 2010
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