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Eric Partridge

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in Gisborne, New Zealand

December 13, 1901

Died

June 01, 1979

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Average rating: 4.07 · 685 ratings · 72 reviews · 200 distinct works

	Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English by Eric Partridge, Janet Whitcut (Editor) 3.93 avg rating — 198 ratings — published 1942 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shakespeare's Bawdy 4.09 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 1948 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English 4.20 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1936 — 62 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English 4.32 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1958 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dictionary of the Underworld 4.33 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1950 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slang To-Day and Yesterday 4.42 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1933 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies 4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1953 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Dictionary of RAF Slang really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1945 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Dictionary of Catch Phrases 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1986 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Dictionary of Cliches 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1978 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“War…next to love, has most captured the world’s imagination” – Eric Partridge, famous lexicographer and author who served in the Australian Imperial Force during WWI”
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“To be mulcted of our money and mutilated of our property is serious enough: to be deprived of our colon would be intolerable.”
― Eric Partridge, You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies

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“When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist regards the ability to play with crossed hands: many of us, when we are older, regard it as a proof of literary skill, maturity, even of sophistication: and many, whether young, not so young, or old, employ it gauchely, haphazardly or, at best, inconsistently.”
― Eric Partridge, You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies

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