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Partridge was born near Waimata Valley, Gisborne, on the North Island of New Zealand to John Thomas Partridge, a grazier, and his wife Ethel Norris. In 1907 the family moved to Brisbane, Australia, where he was educated at Toowoomba grammar school. He then studied first Classics and then French and English at the University of Queensland. During this time Partridge also taught for three years as a school teacher before serving in the Australian infantry during the First World War. His interest in slang and the "underside" of language is said to date from his wartime experience. He finally received his BA in 1921. Gisborne is the name of a unitary authority (in this case, a region and district) in New Zealand. ... North Island The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, the other being the South Island. ... Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the state of Queensland, Australia. ... The University of Queensland The University of Queensland (UQ) has its main campus in Brisbane, Queensland, specifically in the suburb of St Lucia. ... World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machine guns, and poison gas. ...

After receiving his degree, he became Queensland Travelling Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford, where he worked on both an MA on eighteenth-century English romantic poetry, and a BLitt in comparative literature. He subsequently taught in a grammar school in Lancashire for a brief interval, then took lecturing positions at the Universities of Manchester (1925-6) and London (1926-7). In 1925 he married Agnes Dora Vye-Parminter, with whom he had a daughter. In 1927 he founded the Scholartis Press, which he managed until it closed in 1931. Thus he became a full-time writer, occupying the same desk (K1) in the Reading Room of the British Museum almost daily for the next fifty years. His first major work on slang, Slang Today and Yesterday, appeared in 1933, and his well-known Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English followed in 1937. His writing career was interrupted only by his service in the army education corps and the RAF correspondence department during World War II. Partridge died in Moretonhampstead, Devon, in 1979. Full name Balliol College Motto - Named after John de Balliol Previous names - Established 1263 Sister College St Johns College, Cambridge Master Andrew Graham (academic) Location Broad Street Undergraduates 403 Graduates 228 Homepage Boatclub Balliol College, founded in 1263, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... The University of Manchester in Manchester, England is a university that was formed from the merger of the Victoria University of Manchester (commonly known as the University of Manchester before the merger) and UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology) on 1 October 2004. ... Senate House, designed by Charles Holden home to the universitys central administrative offices and its library The University of London is a federation of colleges and institutes which together constitute one of the worlds largest universities. ... The main entrance to the British Museum The British Museum in London is the United Kingdoms - and one of the worlds - largest and most important museums of human history and culture. ... The Royal Air Force (often abbreviated to RAF) is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces. ... Combatants Allied Powers Axis Powers Commanders {{{commander1}}} {{{commander2}}} Strength {{{strength1}}} {{{strength2}}} Casualties 37 million Civilians 25 million military World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th century conflict that engulfed much of the globe and is accepted as the largest and deadliest war in... Location within the British Isles. ... The inner harbour, Brixham, south Devon, at low tide Devon is a large county in South West England, bordering on Cornwall to the west, Dorset and Somerset to the east. ...

Partridge wrote over forty books on the English language, including well-known works on etymology and slang. He also wrote novels under the pseudonym Corrie Denison, and on tennis which he played well. His papers are archived at Birmingham University, British Library, Cambridge University, Kings College, the Royal Institute of British Architects, the University of Exeter, the University of San Francisco, Warwickshire Record Office, and William Salt Library. Etymology is the study of the origins of words. ... Slang is the non-standard use of words in a language of a particular social group, and sometimes the creation of new words or importation of words from another language. ... Tennis balls This article is about the sport, tennis. ... The University of Birmingham is the oldest of three universities in the English city of Birmingham. ... British Library Ossulston St entrance, with distinctive red logo. ... REDIRECT [1] ... There are a number of institutions known as Kings College: Kings College, Cambridge, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge Kings College London, a college of the University of London Kings College School, a school originally founded to feed the London university college. ... The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects in the United Kingdom. ... The University of Exeter is the principal University in the English city of Exeter, in Devon. ... The University of San Francisco (often abbreviated USF) is a private, coeducational Jesuit university in the United States. ... Warwickshire (pronounced either /ˈwɔːɹɪkˌʃə/ or /ˈwɔːɹɪkˌʃɪə/) is a landlocked non-metropolitan county in central England. ...

Works

• A Charm of Words. New York, Macmillan Company, 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.
• From Sanskrit to Brazil. Hamish Hamilton.
• Here, There and Everywhere. Hamish Hamilton.
• Name Into Word. Secker & Warburg
• A Dictionary of Catch Phrases. Routledge & Kegan Paul/Stein and Day.
• A Dictionary of Clichés. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
• A Dictionary of Forces' Slang.
• Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang.
• Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (1958). Reprint: Greenwich House, New York, 1983. ISBN 0-517-414252. 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. Mary Martin Books. Adelaide, South Australia.

  6th edition 1967

  7th edition 1970

  8th edition London and New York, Routledge, 1984

• Shakespeare's Bawdy. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul/New York, E. P. Dutton & Co. (1948), Reprint: Routledge (1991) ISBN 0415050766
• Slang Today and Yesterday. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
• A Smaller Slang Dictionary.
• You Have A Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and its Allies.
• Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English. Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Books. Reprint: W. W. Norton & Company (1997) ISBN 0393317099
• Name This Child. Hamish Hamilton.
• Name Your Child. Evans Bros.
• Eric Partridge In His Own Words. Edited by David Crystal. 1980. Macmillan Publishing Co., New York. ISBN 0-02-528960-8.