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Brotherton Collection28
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections28

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english language28
cant6
romanies6
rogues and vagabonds3
romani language3
songs, english2
crime in literature1
diet1
english ballads and songs1
geography1

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Leland, Charles Godfrey (1824-1903)10
Barrere, Albert Marie Victor4
Leland, Charles Godfrey4
B. E3
Partridge, Eric (1894-1979)3
Farmer, John Stephen (1854-1916?)2
Grose, Francis (1731?-1791)2
Hotten, John Camden (1832-1873)2
Applin, Barbara1
Blunt, John Henry1

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Applin, Barbara

1980

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A dictionary of slang, jargon & cant : embracing English, American, and Anglo-Indian slang, pidgin English, tinker's jargon and other irregular phraseology (v.1)

Barrère, Albert Marie Victor; Leland, Charles Godfrey (1824-1903)

1889-90

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A dictionary of slang, jargon & cant : embracing English, American, and Anglo-Indian slang, pidgin English, tinker's jargon and other irregular phraseology (v.2)

Barrère, Albert Marie Victor; Leland, Charles Godfrey (1824-1903)

1889-90

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A dictionary of slang, jargon & cant : embracing English, American, and Anglo-Indian slang, pidgin English, tinker's jargon and other irregular phraseology (v.1)

Barrère, Albert Marie Victor; Leland, Charles Godfrey (1824-1903)

1889-90

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A dictionary of slang, jargon & cant : embracing English, American, and Anglo-Indian slang, pidgin English, tinker's jargon and other irregular phraseology (v.2)

Barrère, Albert Marie Victor; Leland, Charles Godfrey (1824-1903)

1889-90

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Language in the British Isles

Trudgill, Peter

1984

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Here, there and everywhere : essays upon language

Partridge, Eric (1894-1979)

1950

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A new dictionary of the terms ancient and modern of the canting crew, in its several tribes, of gypsies, beggars, thieves, cheats, &c. With an addition of some proverbs, phrases, figurative speeches, &c

B. E

[ca.1900?]

Facsimile reprint of the original edition, "Printed for G. Hawes... P. Gilbourne ... and W. Davis", London, [1699?].

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Musa pedestris : three centuries of canting songs and slang rhymes, 1536-1896

Farmer, John Stephen (1854-1916?)

1964

English and French.

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