eric partridge

Usage and Abusage-Eric Partridge-Usage and Abusage by Eric Partridge is designed, not to compete with H.W. Fowler's Modern English Usage (that would be a fatuous attempt-and impossible), but to supplement it and to complement it, and yet to write a book that should be less Olympian and less...

A Dictionary of Historical Slang-This book is an abridgement of the 1961 edition of Eric Partridge’s A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, containing only those words and expressions which were already in use before the First World War, and which may therefore be considered as...