by West, Paul, 1930-
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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
A hog on ice and other curious expressions
Who put the butter in butterfly?
Red herrings and white elephants : the origins of the phrases we use everyday
English-Russian dictionary. 70,000 words
OK : the improbable story of America's greatest word
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
The dictionary people : the unsung heroes who created the Oxford English dictionary
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
My first book of Arabic words
My first book of Japanese words
My first book of Hindi words
My first book of Russian words
My first book of Spanish words
Slangalicious : where we got that crazy lingo
The English Pennsylvania Dutch dictionary. A glossary of English words and expressions with their Pennsylvania Dutch equivalents .
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
My mother's music
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