Incoming Resources
- Names, Basil Cottle
- Unusual words and how they came about,, by Edwin Radford
- Words, words, words, C. M. Matthews
- Curious English words and phrases, the truth behind the expressions we use, Max Cryer
- The F-word, edited by Jesse Sheidlower ; [with a foreword by Lewis Black]
- Much ado about English, up and down the bizarre byways of a fascinating language, Richard Watson Todd
- Borrowed words, a history of loanwords in English, Philip Durkin
- Words, words, words, Houghmagandie, knockers, trolleys & others /, Diarmaid Ó Muirithe
- The play of words, fun & games for language lovers, Richard Lederer ; illustrations by Bernie Cootner
- One word leads to another, a light history of words, Milton Paisner
- Decadence, the strange life of an epithet, Richard Gilman
- The secret life of words, how English became English, Henry Hitchings
- Uncumber and pantaloon;, some words with stories, [by] Gillian Edwards. Illustrated by John Ward
- Signs, language, and behavior
- The story of English in 100 words, David Crystal
- Black sheep and lame ducks, the origins of even more phrases we use every day, Albert Jack ; Illustrations by Ama Page
- Word origins--, and how we know them, Anatoly Liberman
- A pleasure in words, by Eugene T. Maleska ; with a foreword by David B. Guralnik
- The teaching of English suffixes., New York, Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1941
- The unexpected evolution of language, discover the surprising etymology of everyday words, Justin Cord Hayes
- Six words you never knew had something to do with pigs, and other fascinating facts about language, Katherine Barber
- The Oxford Handbook of The Word, edited by John R. Taylor
- Labels for locals, what to call people from Abilene to Zimbabwe., Paul Dickson
- A charm of words;, essays and papers on language
- A few words, Laurence F. McNamee and Kent Biffle
- An introduction to modern English word-formation
- The growth of American English, William A. Craigie
- Dog days and dandelions, a lively guide to the animal meanings behind everyday words, Martha Barnette
- Name into word;, proper names that have become common property; a discursive dictionary., With a foreword
- 100 words to make you sound smart, from the editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries
- Ballyhoo, buckaroo, and spuds, ingenious tales of words and their origins, Michael Quinion
- You English words
- The foundations of English
- What in the word?, wordplay, word lore, and answers to the peskiest questions about language, Charles Harrington Elster
- How happy became homosexual, and other mysterious semantic shifts, Howard Richler
- Lord Sandwich and the pants man, an eponyms and toponyms companion, Eamon Evans
- On the wisdom of words,, by Geoffrey Wagner
- Weasel words, Philip Howard
- The chronology of words and phrases, a thousand years in the history of English, Linda and Roger Flavell
- Weeds in the garden of words, further observations on the tangled history of the English language, Kate Burridge
- Words in sheep's clothing, [by] Mario Pei
- The word detective, by Evan Morris
- The word irony and its context, 1500-1755
- The etymologicon, a circular stroll through the hidden connections of the English language, Mark Forsyth
- In a word, 750 words and their fascinating stories and origins, by Rosalie Baker ; illustrated by Tom Lopes
- Origins of the specious, myths and misconceptions of the English language, Patricia T. O'Conner and Stewart Kellerman
- The life of language, the fascinating ways words are born, live, & die, Sol Steinmetz and Barbara Ann Kipfer
- I love it when you talk retro, hoochie coochie, double whammy, drop a dime, and the forgotten origins of American speech, Ralph Keyes
- Green-eyed monsters & good samaritans, literary allusions in everyday language, Leonard Mann
- The Merriam-Webster book of word histories, [edited by the staff of G. & C. Merriam Co.]