Incoming Resources
- The secret life of words, how English became English, Henry Hitchings
- Black sheep and lame ducks, the origins of even more phrases we use every day, Albert Jack ; Illustrations by Ama Page
- Three sheets to the wind, the nautical origins of everyday expressions, Cynthia Barrett ; illustrations by Vail Barrett
- Strange vernaculars, how eighteenth-century slang, cant, provincial languages, and nautical jargon became English, Janet Sorensen
- Common phrases and where they come from, Myron Korach in collaboration with John B. Mordock
- Buckley, the right word, selected, assembled, and edited by Samuel S. Vaughan, with an introduction & sundry commentaries
- The accidental dictionary, the remarkable twists and turns of English words, Paul Anthony Jones
- Wordbirds, an irreverent lexicon for the 21st century, by Liesl Schillinger ; illustrations by Elizabeth Zechel
- The secret life of words, English words and their origins, Professor Anne Curzan
- May we borrow your language?, how English has stolen, purloined, snaffled, pilfered, appropriated and looted words from all four corners of the world, Philip Gooden
- The story of English in 100 words, David Crystal
- 100 words to make you sound smart, from the editors of the American Heritage dictionaries
- What's in a word?, Webb Garrison
- Expletive deleted, $&#@*! : a good look at bad language, Ruth Wajnryb
- The real McCoy and 149 other eponyms, Claire Cock-Starkey
- Seeing red or tickled pink, color terms in everyday language, Christine Ammer
- Bagels bumf & buses, a day in the life of the English language, Simon Horobin
- The hidden history of coined words, Ralph Keyes
- Everything you know about English is wrong, Bill Brohaugh
- Around the world in 80 words, a journey through the English language, Paul Anthony Jones