Clear Search

Books+ Search Results

Subject: "English language Etymology."
Location: Is
Is Is Not
Internet Archive

Advanced Search

Basic Search
Help
Add a row
Reset

Limit results by

1.
Wicked words : a treasury of carses, insults, put-downs, and other formerly unprintable terms from Anglo-Saxon time to the present
Author
Rawson, Hugh
Published
New York : Crown Publishers, 1989.
Online
Online book (login required)
Location
Internet Archive >> None
Format
Books
2.
Can I have a word with you?
Author
Richler, Howard, 1948-
Published
Vancouver : Ronsdale Press, c2007.
Online
Online book (login required)
Location
Internet Archive >> None
Format
Books
3.
The ring of words : Tolkien and the Oxford English dictionary
Author
Gilliver, Peter
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Online
Online book (login required)
Location
Internet Archive >> None
Format
Books
4.
From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow : how maps name, claim, and inflame
Author
Monmonier, Mark S.
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Online
Online book (login required)
Location
Internet Archive >> None
Format
Books
5.
Shakespeare's names
Author
Maguire, Laurie E.
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Online
Online book (login required)
Location
Internet Archive >> None
Format
Books
6.
Toponymity : an atlas of words
Author
Marciano, John Bemelmans
Published
New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2010.
Online
Online book (login required)
Location
Internet Archive >> None
Format
Books
7.
Words to eat by : five foods and the culinary history of the English language
Author
Lipkowitz, Ina
Published
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2011.
Online
Online book (login required)
Location
Internet Archive >> None
Format
Books
8.
Sticklers, sideburns & bikinis : the military origins of everyday words and phrases
Author
Donald, Graeme
Published
Oxford ; New York : Osprey Pub., 2008.
Online
Online book (login required)
Location
Internet Archive >> None
Format
Books
9.
Slangalicious : where we got that crazy lingo
Author
O'Reilly, Gillian
Published
Toronto : Annick Press, c2004.
Online
Online book (login required)
Location
Internet Archive >> None
Format
Books
10.
Names and history : people, places, and things
Author
Redmonds, George, 1935-
Published
London ; New York : Hambledon and London ; [New York] : Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Online
Online book (login required)
Location
Internet Archive >> None
Format
Books
11.
Inventing English : a portable history of the language
Author
Lerer, Seth, 1955-
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.
Online
Online book (login required)
Location
Internet Archive >> None
Format
Books
12.
How to read a word
Author
Knowles, Elizabeth (Elizabeth M.)
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Online
Online book (login required)
Location
Internet Archive >> None
Format
Books
13.
The secret life of words : how English became English
Author
Hitchings, Henry, 1974-
Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
Online
Online book (login required)
Location
Internet Archive >> None
Format
Books
14.
Shaggy dogs and black sheep : the origins of even more phrases we use every day
Author
Jack, Albert
Published
London ; New York : Penguin, 2005.
Online
Online book (login required)
Location
Internet Archive >> None
Format
Books
15.
The real McCoy : the true stories behind our everyday phrases
Author
Hole, Georgia
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2005.
Online
Online book (login required)
Location
Internet Archive >> None
Format
Books
16.
Sparkle and spin : a book about words
Author
Rand, Ann, 1918-2012
Published
San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 2006.
Online
Online book (login required)
Location
Internet Archive >> None
Format
Books
17.
Reading the OED : one man, one year, 21,730 pages
Author
Shea, Ammon
Published
New York : Penguin Group, 2008.
Online
Online book (login required)
Location
Internet Archive >> None
Format
Books
18.
How happy became homosexual : and other mysterious semantic shifts
Author
Richler, Howard, 1948-
Published
Vancouver : Ronsdale Press, 2013.
Online
Online book (login required)
Location
Internet Archive >> None
Format
Books
19.
More word histories and mysteries : from aardvark to zombie
Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2006.
Online
Online book (login required)
Location
Internet Archive >> None
Format
Books
20.
Semantic antics : how and why words change meaning
Author
Steinmetz, Sol
Published
New York : Random House Reference, c2008.
Online
Online book (login required)
Location
Internet Archive >> None
Format
Books
21.
Ship to shore : a dictionary of everyday words and phrases derived from the sea
Author
Jeans, Peter D.
Published
Camden, Me. : International Marine, c2004.
Online
Online book (login required)
Location
Internet Archive >> None
Format
Books
22.
Lost for words : the hidden history of the Oxford English dictionary
Author
Mugglestone, Lynda
Published
New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2005.
Online
Online book (login required)
Location
Internet Archive >> None
Format
Books
23.
Word myths : debunking linguistic urban legends
Author
Wilton, David, 1963-
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Online
Online book (login required)
Location
Internet Archive >> None
Format
Books
24.
Words on the level
Author
Brown, Ivor John Carnegie, 1891-
Published
London : Bodley Head, 1973.
Online
Online book (login required)
Location
Internet Archive >> None
Format
Books
25.
The Oxford dictionary of word histories
Published
Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Online
Online book (login required)
Location
Internet Archive >> None
Format
Books