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An analysis of derivative words in the English language : or, A key to their precise analytic defini

Town, Salem, 1779-1864.
Buffalo : Phinney & Co., 1859, c1852. 1859

Anglo-Saxon keywords

Frantzen, Allen J., 1947-
Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. 2012

Ballyhoo, buckaroo, and spuds : ingenious tales of words and their origins

Quinion, Michael.
Washington [D.C.] : Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, 2004. 2004

Behind the words : the FCO, hegemonolingualism and the end of Britain's freedom

Mallinson, Bill, author.
Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. 2014

A browser's dictionary, and native's guide to the unknown American language

Ciardi, John, 1916-1986
New York, N.Y. : Harper & Row, c1980. 1980

Cardinal men and scarlet women a colorful etymology of words that discriminate

Keessen, Jan, 1943-
Milwaukee, Wisc. : Marquette University Press, c2009. 2009

[Christian pamphlets.

[United States : s.n., 1859-1882] 1882

The class-book of etymology, designed to promote precision in the use, and facilitate the acquisitio

Lynd, James.
Philadelphia, E. C. & J. Biddle, 1854. 1854

Comprehensive medical thesaurus with concise etymological analysis : workbook for conquering medical

Ohno, John M.
Danbury, CT : Rutledge Books, Inc. c1999. 1999

Contrastive analysis of English and Polish surveying terminology

Kwiatek, Ewelina, author.
Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. 2013

Culinary linguistics the chef's special

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013. 2013

Epea pteroenta, or, The diversions of Purley

Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812.
Philadelphia : Printed by Wm. Duana, 1806. 1806

Empire of words the reign of the OED

Willinsky, John, 1950-
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1994. 1994

English past and present

Trench, Richard Chenevix, 1807-1886.
London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1899. 1899

English words from Latin (based on Scott's elementary Latin)

Denneen, Marie.
Chicago : Scott, Foresman and Co., c1920. 1920

An etymological dictionary of the English language

Oswald, John
Philadelphia, E. C. & J. Biddle; Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1868. 1868

Everything you know about English is wrong

Brohaugh, William.
Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks, c2008. 2008

The executive's in a word book

Ernst, Margaret Samuels, 1894-
New York : Belmont Books, 1963. 1963

The first book of etymology, designed to promote precision in the use, and facilitate the acquisitio

Lynd, James.
Philadelphia, E. C. & J. Biddle, 1853. 1853

Flesh becomes word A lexicography of the scapegoat or, the history of an idea

Dawson, David.
East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2013. 2013

Growth and structure of the English language

Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943.
Oxford : Blackwell, 1952. 1952

A hand-book of Anglo-Saxon rootwords ...

New York, D. Appleton & company, 1855. 1855

A hog on ice : and other curious expressions

Funk, Charles Earle, 1881-1957.
New York, N.Y. : Harper & Row, 1985, c1948. 1985

How happy became homosexual : and other mysterious semantic shifts

Richler, Howard, 1948- author.
Vancouver, [British Columbia] : Ronsdale Press, 2013. 2013

Inventing English a portable history of the language

Lerer, Seth, 1955-
New York : Columbia University Press, c2007. 2007

Keywords : a vocabulary of culture and society

Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press, 2015. 2015

Keywords a vocabulary of culture and society

Williams, Raymond.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1985, c1983. 1985

Loaded words

Garber, Marjorie B.
New York : Fordham University Press, 2012. 2012

Lost for words : the hidden history of the Oxford English dictionary

Mugglestone, Lynda.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005. 2005

Medical terms : their roots and origins

Tindall, A. R. (Alex R.), 1924-
Lisse, The Netherlands ; Exton, PA : Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers, c1997. 1997

Modern philology; its discoveries, history, and influence.

Dwight, Benjamin W. (Benjamin Woodbridge), 1816-1889.
New York, A. S. Barnes & Burr, 1859-64. 1864

Modernism keywords

Cuddy-Keane, Melba.
Hoboken : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. 2014

Never enough words : how Americans invented expressions as ingenious, ornery, and colorful as themse

McQuain, Jeff, 1955-
New York : Random House, 1999. 1999

On the study of words;

Trench, Richard Chenevix, 1807-1886.
New York, Redfield, 1855. 1855

Or, The diversions of Purley.

Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812
Philadelphia: Printed by Wm. Dunn, 1806-1807. 1806

The Oxford guide to etymology

Durkin, Philip, author.
Oxford, [England] ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. 2009

The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dict

Winchester, Simon.
New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c1998. 1998

The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dict

Winchester, Simon.
New York : HarperPerennial, [1999] 1999

Romanticism : keywords

Burwick, Frederick, author.
Chichester, England : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2015. 2015

Roots, family histories of familiar words

Davies, Peter, 1940-
New York : McGraw-Hill, c1981. 1981

The scholar's companion containing exercises in the orthography, derivation, and classification of E

Butter, Henry, 1794-1885.
Philadelphia : E.H. Butler & Co., 1870, c1863. 1970

The secret life of words : how English became English

Hitchings, Henry, 1974-
New York, N.Y. : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. 2008

A short history of English words.

Groom, Bernard, 1892-1975.
London, Macmillan; New York, St. Martin's Press, 1965. 1965

Stories behind words : the origins and histories of 285 English words

Limburg, Peter R.
[Bronx, N.Y.] : H.W. Wilson Co., 1986. 1986

Studies in words,

Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963
Cambridge, London, Cambridge U.P., 1967. 1967

A study of the Latin element of the second 10,000 words in Thorndike's Teachers Word Book of 20,000

Akin, Elizabeth D. Pryor.
Pittsburg, Kan. : Kansas State Teachers College, 1936. 1936

The study of words

Trench, Richard Chenevix, author.
[Luton, Bedfordshire] : Andrews UK Limited, [2012] 2012

Take my word for it : more On language

Safire, William, 1929-2009.
New York, N.Y. : Times Books, c1986. 1986

Thereby hangs a tale : stories of curious word origins.

Funk, Charles Earle, 1881-1957.
New York, N.Y. : Harper, [1950] 1950

Treasure-house of the language : the living OED

Brewer, Charlotte, 1956-
New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, c2007. 2007