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==Selected works== *''Three Personal Records of the War'' (with [[R. H. Mottram]] and John Easton). Scholartis Press, 1929; republished as ''Three Men's War: The Personal Records of Active Service'' (1930). *''Songs and Slang of the British Soldier'' (with John Brophy). Scholartis Press, 1931. * ''A Charm of Words''. New York, Macmillan Co., 1961 (copyright 1960). * ''A New Testament Word Book: a Glossary''. London, George Routledge & Sons, 1940; republished New York, Books for Libraries Press, 1970. The 1987 republication by the Christian publisher Barbour & Company of Uhricksville, Ohio as ''The Book of New Testament Word Studies'', with copyright claimed by the publisher, appears to be a copyright violation. * ''The 'Shaggy Dog' Story''. New York: Philosophical Library, 1954. * ''A Dictionary of the Underworld''. London, Macmillan Co., 1949; reprinted with new addenda, New York: Bonanza Books, 1961. *[https://books.google.com/books?id=Nua-gIgsCroC ''From Sanskrit to Brazil: Vignettes and Essays upon Languages'']. Hamish Hamilton, 1952. Reprinted 1969, Freeport, New York: Books for Libraries Press. {{ISBN|0-8369-5055-0}}. *[https://archive.org/stream/gentleartoflexic00part#page/n5/mode/2up ''The Gentle Art of Lexicography as pursued and experienced by an addict''] (1963), New York: The Macmillan Company. * ''Here, There and Everywhere''. Hamish Hamilton. * ''Name into Word''. Secker & Warburg. * [https://books.google.com/books?id=Nm3jbg0JalMC ''A Dictionary of Catch Phrases'']. Routledge & Kegan Paul (UK)/[[Stein and Day]] (US). First published 1977. 2nd edition 1985. Paperback 1986. e-print 2005 {{ISBN|0-203-37995-0}} *[https://books.google.com/books?id=SCOt1oUvzM4C&q=%22Eric+Partridge%22 ''A Dictionary of Clichés'']. Routledge & Kegan Paul. First published 1940. E-print 2005. {{ISBN|0-203-37996-9}} * ''A Dictionary of Forces' Slang''. * ''A Dictionary of RAF Slang''. Michael Joseph, 1945; new edition with an introduction by [[Russell Ash]], Pavilion Books, 1990. {{ISBN|978-1-85145-526-3}} * ''Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang''. * ''Origins: A Short [[Etymological dictionary|Etymological Dictionary]] of Modern English'' (1958). Reprint: New York: Greenwich House, 1983. {{ISBN|0-517-41425-2}}. Reprint: Random House Value Publishing (1988) * ''[[A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English]]''. 1st edition: London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1937. *:2nd edition 1938 *:3rd edition 1949 *:4th edition 1951 *:5th edition in two volumes, supplement much enlarged, 1961. Reprinted in 1 vol. 1963. Adelaide, South Australia: Mary Martin Books. *:6th edition 1967 *:7th edition 1970 *:8th edition London and New York: Routledge, 1984. [https://books.google.com/books?id=tvRp1whVFUsC&q=dictionary+of+slang Paperback reprint 2002] *[https://books.google.com/books?id=w1bX-BnOdeAC ''Shakespeare's Bawdy'']. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul (1947)/New York, E. P. Dutton & Co. (1948), Reprint: Routledge (1991), {{ISBN|0-415-05076-6}}. Routledge Classics 2001, Hardback {{ISBN|0-415-25553-8}}; Paperback {{ISBN|0-415-25400-0}}. * ''Slang Today and Yesterday''. Routledge & Kegan Paul. * ''A Smaller Slang Dictionary''. *[https://books.google.com/books?id=OudW3l2IoPUC ''You Have A Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and its Allies'']. First published 1953 by Hamish Hamilton Ltd. Taylor & Francis, e-print 2005. {{ISBN|0-203-37992-6}}. * ''Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English''. Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Books. Reprint: W. W. Norton & Company (1997). {{ISBN|0-393-31709-9}}. * ''Name This Child''. Hamish Hamilton. * ''Name Your Child''. Evans Bros. * ''Eric Partridge in His Own Words''. Edited by David Crystal. 1980. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. {{ISBN|0-02-528960-8}}. As 'Corrie Denison', *''Glimpses''. Scholartis Press, 1928. * "From Two Angles", a long story telling the story of the First World War from two points of view, and including many soldiers' songs, is included in ''A Martial Medley'', Scholartis Press, 1931.
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