A POTPOURRI OF BOOKS FOR LINGUAPHILES
Bierce,
A. The Devils Dictionary",
1993. (var. editions; available on-line).
Black,
D. Spoonerisms Sycophants and Sops,
1988. (Harper and Row).
Byrne,
J. Mrs. Byrnes Dictionary",
1974. (University Books).
Bryson,
B. Made in America,
1994. (Avon).
Bryson,
B. The Mother Tongue.
Buckley
Jr., WF. The Lexicon,
1998. (Harcourt and Brace).
Ciardi,
J. Good Words To You,
1987. (Harper and Row).
Dickson,
P. Words, 1982. (Delacorte).
Feldman,
D. "Who Put the Butter in Butterfly?",
1989. (Harper and Row).
Ehrlich,
E. Amo, Amas, Amat, and More",
1985. (Harper and Row).
Ehrlich,
E. Youve Got Ketchup on Your Muumuu,
2000. (Henry Holt and Co.).
Elster,
C. Theres a Word for It! ,
1996. (Pocket).
Espy,
W. An Almanac of Words at Play,
1975. (Clarkson N. Potter).
Espy,
W. Another Almanac of Words at Play,
1980. (Clarkson N. Potter).
Gordon,
K. The Disheveled Dictionary,
1997. (Houghton Mifflin).
Grambs,
D. The Endangered English Dictionary",
1997. (WW Norton and Co.).
Hale,
C. Sin and Syntax",
1999. (Broadway Books).
Hook,
J.N. The Grand Panjandrum",
1991. (Collier).
Lederer,
R. Crazy English",
1990. (Pocket).
LeMay,
H. Lerner, S., and Taylor, M. New Words Dictionary",
1985 (Ballantine).
Lipton,
J. An Exhaltation of Larks",
1968. (Grossman).
McCrum,
R., Cran, W., and MacNeil, R. The Story of English",
1992. (Penguin).
McKean,
E. (Ed.). Weird and Wonderful Words",
2003. (Oxford).
Metcalf,
A. Predicting New Words", 2002.
(Houghton Mifflin).
Morris,
E. The Word Detective",
2001. (Plume).
Novobatzky,
P. and Shea, A. Depraved and Insulting
English, 2001. (Harcourt).
Nunberg,
G. The Way We Talk Now,
2001. (Houghton Mifflin).
Onions,
CT (Ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of English
Etymology, 1966. (Oxford).
Rocke,
R. The Grandiloquent Dictionary,
1972. (Prentice-Hall). Please note: this is NOT the same as the online
Grandiloquent Dictionary.
Safire,
W. Watching My Language,
1997. (Random House).
Sheidlower,
J. "Jesse's Word of the Day: From Abacinate to
Yonic", (19??); out of print but available thru
Amazon.com.
Shipley,
J. In Praise of English",
1977. (Times Books).
Syatt,
D. Like We Say Back Home",
1980. (Citadel).
Train,
J. Remarkable Words with Astonishing Origins",
1980. (Clarkson N. Potter).
Urdang,
L. (Ed.). Misunderstood, Misused, Mispronounced
Words", 1972. (Weathervane).
Webber,
E. and Feinsilber, M. Merriam Websters Dictionary of Allusions, 1999.
(Merriam Webster).
Websters New International Dictionary, Picturesque Word Origins, 1933. (G&C Merriam Company).