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The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren by Opie, Iona and Peter
reprint
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$17.50
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Book desription: Oxford University Press, 1960. Hardback reprint Near Fine in Good dust jacket. Heavy edgewear on dust jacket, spine faded. Light soil on bottom edge, else book is fine. Eight-year study of 5000 British schoolchildren, records their customs, rites, superstitions, rhymes, chants, catcalls, retorts, stock jokes, ruderies, riddles, slang-epithets, nicknames and the traditional juvenile argot. Includes full text of more than 800 rhymes and chants as well as a geographical index, index of first lines and general index.
- Bookseller: Century Books
 (US)
- Bookseller Inventory #: 5338
- Format/binding: Hardback
- Book condition: Near Fine in Good dust jacket.
- Edition: reprint
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Date published: 1960
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