The secret lives of words

Dictionary of word origins

Abracadabra to zombie : more than 300 wacky word origins

Remarkable words with astonishing origins

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

In a word : 750 words and their fascinating stories and origins

Horsefeathers and other curious words

Common phrases : and the amazing stories behind them

The Jonathan David dictionary of first names

Literally, the best language book ever : annoying words and abused phrases you should never use again

The hidden history of coined words

Talk about English : how words travel and change

The story of English in 100 words

Bryson's dictionary of troublesome words

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

Who put the butter in butterfly?

A hog on ice and other curious expressions

Red herrings and white elephants : the origins of the phrases we use everyday

OK : the improbable story of America's greatest word

English-Russian dictionary. 70,000 words

Words to eat by : five foods and the culinary history of the English language

The new American dictionary of baby names

A chartreuse leotard in a magenta limousine : and other words named after people and places

You've got ketchup on your muumuu :an A-to-Z guide to English words from around the world

1,000 German words

Glossary of 6167 English words and expressions and their Berks County Pennsylvania Dutch equivalents

German-American names

Slangalicious : where we got that crazy lingo

The English Pennsylvania Dutch dictionary. A glossary of English words and expressions with their Pennsylvania Dutch equivalents .

My first book of Arabic words

My first book of Hindi words

My first book of Japanese words

My first book of Russian words

My first book of Spanish words

Words and phrases of early America

Introduction to the Hawaiian language : (an english-hawaiian vocabulary), comprising five thousand of the commonest and most useful english words and their equivalents, in modern hawaiian speech, correctly pronounced, with a complementary hawaiian-english vocabulary

My first book of Mandarin Chinese words

Furaha means happy : a book of Swahili words

A dictionary of Latin words and phrases

My mother's music

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