Where words come from (Watts reference)

Abracadabra to zombie : more than 300 wacky word origins

Dictionary of word origins

The secret lives of words

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

Remarkable words with astonishing origins

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

Horsefeathers and other curious words

Talk about English : how words travel and change

Slangalicious : where we got that crazy lingo

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

When blue meant yellow : how colors got their names

Gobble : the complete book of Thanksgiving words

Mushy! : the complete book of Valentine words

Common phrases : and the amazing stories behind them

The Jonathan David dictionary of first names

Bryson's dictionary of troublesome words

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

The story of English in 100 words

1,000 German 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

OK : the improbable story of America's greatest word

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

The new American dictionary of baby names

English-Russian dictionary. 70,000 words

My first book of Mandarin Chinese words

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

My first book of Korean words

German-American names

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

Scholastic children's dictionary

The American Heritage student dictionary

Merriam-Webster's primary dictionary

Scholastic pocket dictionary