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Spanish Word Histories and Mysteries : English Words That Come from Spanish
American Heritage Dictionary
Paperback - $21.95
Movers and Shakers : A Chronology of Words That Shaped Our Age
John Ayto
Hardcover - $46.95
Take a fascinating journey from cornflakes (1907) to spam (1994). This vivid picture of the last 105 years is based on John Ayto's critically acclaimed Twentieth Century Words, and gives a selection of the key words added to the English language in t ...
Six Words You Never Knew Had Something to Do with Pigs : And Other Fascinating Facts about the English Language
Katherine Barber
Paperback - $21.95
This delightfully addictive compendium of fascinating word facts does for the dictionary what "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves" did for the manual of style.
Wanderings Among Words
Henry Bett
Paperback - $42.95
This book is a fascinating study of the history and derivation of many familiar English words. Amongst other things, it deals with some of the primitive elements in our speech which take us back to prehistoric times; with the debt our language owes t ...
Say Chic : A Collection of French Words We Can't Live Without
Francoise Blanchard
Paperback - $17.95
Blooming English : Observations on the Roots, Cultivation and Hybrids of the English Language
Kate Burridge
Paperback - $51.95
Burridge takes a fascinating and well-crafted look at the roots, cultivation and hybrids of the English language, past and present.
An Introduction to English Morphology
Andrew Carstairs-Mccarthy
Paperback - $65.95
What exactly are words? Are they the things that get listed in dictionaries, or are they the basic units of sentence structure? Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy explores the implications of these different approaches to words in English. He explains the var ...
Why Do We Say It? : The Stories Behind the Words, Expressions and Cliches We Use
Castle Books
Hardcover - $12.95
The stories behind the words and phrases we use.