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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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Wordwatching: Breaking into the Dictionary: It's His Word Against Theirs

by Alex Horne

ISBN 13: 9781905264612

Format: Paperback (336 pages)
Publisher: Virgin Books
Published: 14 Jan 2010

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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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More Word Histories and Mysteries: From Aardvark to Zombie

by American Heritage Dictionary

ISBN 13: 9780618716814

Format: Paperback (288 pages)
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
Published: 25 Oct 2006

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Black Talk: Words and Phrases from the Hood to the Amen Corner

by Geneva Smitherman

ISBN 13: 9780395969199

Format: Illustrated (305 pages)
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
Published: 21 Mar 2000

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Thereby Hangs A Tale: Stories of Curious Word Origins

by Charles E. Funk

ISBN 13: 9780062720498

Format: Paperback (320 pages)
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: 24 Sep 2014

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Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache

by Keith H. Basso

ISBN 13: 9780826317247

Format: Paperback (192 pages)
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 15 Aug 1996

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Genesis and the Mystery Confucius Couldn't Solve

by Ethel R Nelson,Richard E Broadberry

ISBN 13: 9780570046356

Format: Paperback (174 pages)
Publisher: Concordia Publishing House
Published: Apr 1994

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The Tibeto-Burman Reproductive System: Toward an Etymological Thesaurus (UC Publications in Linguistics)

by James A Matisoff

ISBN 13: 9780520098718

Format: Paperback (302 pages)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 14 Jul 2009

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Yiddish Given Names: A Lexicon

by Rella Israly Cohn

ISBN 13: 9780810852617

Format: Hardcover (432 pages)
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 28 May 2008

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The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Early Modern Europe: Encounters with a Certain Something

by Richard Scholar

ISBN 13: 9780199274406

Format: Hardcover (352 pages)
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 29 Sep 2005

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The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology

by

ISBN 13: 9780198611127

Format: Hardcover (1042 pages)
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 26 May 1966

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