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Product Description: Celebrates American names of every stripe, color and variety, highlighting the most amusing, fascinating and arcane. It features popular first names, common surnames (by national origin) and gossip on celebrities who've changed their names...read more

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9780759202962 | E-Rights/E-Reads Ltd, December 1, 1999, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Celebrates American names of every stripe, color and variety, highlighting the most amusing, fascinating and arcane.

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A guide to proper usage for standard written, as well as conversational, English distinguishes between often-confused words

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9780201523232 | Addison-Wesley, July 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A guide to proper usage for standard written, as well as conversational, English distinguishes between often-confused words

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9780201577037 | Reprint edition (Addison-Wesley, August 1, 1991), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A guide to proper usage for standard written, as well as conversational, English distinguishes between often-confused words

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Relates anecdotes and defines nearly three thousand seldom- or never-used English words, dividing the words by subject for easy reference

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9780020332886 | Rev sub edition (Collier Books, July 1, 1991), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Relates anecdotes and defines nearly three thousand seldom- or never-used English words, dividing the words by subject for easy reference

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Gathers unusual facts about names, lists the original names of celebritites, and discusses the history of various place names (view table of contents)

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9780471530114 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, April 1, 1991, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Gathers unusual facts about names, lists the original names of celebritites, and discusses the history of various place names

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9780155318731 | 11 edition (Harcourt College Pub, January 1, 1990), cover price $33.95

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Explains the origins and meanings of the common surnames of the various ethnic groups that have immigrated to the United States including the English, Africans, Germans, Spanish, Chinese, and Scandinavians

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9780020800002 | Atheneum, September 1, 1983, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Explains the origins and meanings of the common surnames of the various ethnic groups that have immigrated to the United States including the English, Africans, Germans, Spanish, Chinese, and Scandinavians

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9780023557804 | 5 sub edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, February 1, 1982), cover price $70.00

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Product Description: This practical text will help students understand and use over 400 of the most common two- and three-word verbs in English such as add up to, write down, break in on, or watch out for.

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9780155925069 | Heinle & Heinle Pub, June 1, 1981, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This practical text will help students understand and use over 400 of the most common two- and three-word verbs in English such as add up to, write down, break in on, or watch out for.

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Relates instructive anecdotes about two thousand littleor never-used English words, dividing the words by subject for easy reference

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9780025536203 | Macmillan Pub Co, October 1, 1980, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Relates instructive anecdotes about two thousand littleor never-used English words, dividing the words by subject for easy reference

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Product Description: 1979: by J. N. Hook. Education. A 76 year history of the National Council of Teachers of English. Paperback cover is tan and shows some age; binding is tight; text is clean; page edges are sharp.

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9780814130216 | Natl Council of Teachers, June 1, 1979, cover price $5.00 | About this edition: 1979: by J.

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