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What in the Word?: Wordplay, Word Lore, and Answers to Your Peskiest Questions about Language (Harvest Original)

by Charles Harrington Elster

ISBN 13: 9780156031974

Format: Paperback (286 pages)
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Published: 28 Sep 2005

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The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins (Writers Reference)

by Robert Hendrickson

ISBN 13: 9780816069668

Format: Hardcover (948 pages)
Publisher: Facts on File
Published: 15 Dec 2008

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An Encyclopedia of Swearing: The Social History of Oaths, Profanity, Foul Language, and Ethnic Slurs in the English-speaking World

by Geoffrey Hughes

ISBN 13: 9780765612311

Format: Hardcover (573 pages)
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 15 Jul 2006

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Dictionary of Languages: The Definitive Reference to More Than 400 Languages

by A Dalby

ISBN 13: 9780231115698

Format: Paperback (800 pages)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 13 Jul 2010
Other Format: Hardcover, Illustrated, Paperback

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The Handbook of Second Language Acquisition (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics): 20

by Doughty,Long

ISBN 13: 9781405132817

Format: Illustrated (904 pages)
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 22 Mar 2005

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