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Bibliography
Sources of Etymologies or Word Origins
Sources of information that present the etymological origins of the words shown in the lists of words.
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American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992.
Asimov, Isaac. Words from History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1968. Asimov, Isaac. Words from the Myths. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961. Asimov, Isaac. Words of Science. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959. Ayto, John. Dictionary of Word Origins. New York: Arcade Publishing, 1990. Barber, Charles L. The Story of Speech and Language. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1965. Barnett, Lincoln. The Treasure of Our Tongue. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. Barnhart, Robert K., ed. The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology. New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1988. Baugh, Albert C. A History of the English Language, 2nd ed. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1968. Brandreth, Gyles. The Word Book. London: Robson Books Ltd., 1988. Evans, Ivor H. editor. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1981 edition. Bryson, Bill. The Mother Tongue, English & How it Got That Way. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1990. Burnam, Tom. The Dictionary of Misinformation. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1975. Ciardi, John. A Browser's Dictionary. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1980. Claiborne, Robert. The Roots of English. New York: Random House, Inc., 1989. Cook, Chris. Dictionary of Historical Terms. New York: Peter Bedrick Books, 1991. Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Dickson, Paul. Words. New York: Delacorte Press, 1982. Di Blasi, Augustine J. Words: Let’s Get to Their Roots, a Collection of Word Derivations. New York: William-Frederick Press, 1980. Donald, Graeme. Things You Thought You Thought You Knew! London: Unwin Paperbacks, 1986. Editors of The American Heritage Dictionaries. Word Mysteries & Histories. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. Elster, Charles Harrington. There’s a Word for it! New York: Scribner, 1996. Encarta World English Dictionary New York: New York, 1999.
Ernst, Margaret S. In a Word. Great Neck, New York: Channel Press, 1960. Ernst, Margaret S. More About Words. Great Neck, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1951. Espy, Willard R. Thou Improper, Thou Uncommon Noun, An Etymology of Words That Once Were Names. Great Neck, New York: Clarkson N. Potter, inc., 1978. Freeman, Morton S. The Story Behind the Word. Phildelphia: iSi Press, 1985. Friend, J. Newton. Words Tricks and Traditions. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1957. Funk, Charles Earle. Thereby Hangs a Tale, Stories of Curious Word Origins. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1985. Funk, Charles Earle. Word Origins and Their Romantic Stories. New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1950. Garrison, Webb,. What’s in a Word?. Nashville, Tennessee: Rutledge Hill Press, 2000. Garrison, Webb,. Why You Say It. New York: Abingdon Press, 1955. Gayley, Charles Mills. The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1939. Girsdansky, Michael. The Adventure of Language. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-hall, Inc, 1963. Grambs, David. About Words. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1984. Greene, Amsel. Word Clues, 2nd ed. Evanston, Illinois: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1949. Guerber, H. A. The Myths of Greece & Rome. New York: London House & Maxwell, 1967. Heller, Louis G., Alexander Humer, and Malcah Dror. The Private Lives of English Words. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company, 1984. Hendrickson, Robert. Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, Revised and Expanded Edition. New York: Facts On File Inc., 1997. Herzberg, Max J. Classical Myths. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1935. Hitt, Jack, Ed. In a Word. New York: Dell Publishing, 1992. Holt, Alfred H. Phrase and Word Origins. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1961. Hook, J.N. The Grand Panjandrum. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, Inc., 1980. Howard, Philip. Winged Words. London: Hamesh Hamilton, Ltd., 1988. Idyll, C.P. Abyss, The Deep Sea & the Creatures that Live in it. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1976. Jennings, Gary. Personalities of Language. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1965. Klein, Dr. Ernest. A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, Volumes I and II. New York: Elsevier Publishing Company, 1966. Kravitz, David. Who’s Who in Greek and Roman Mythology. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc./Publisher, 1975.
Krill, Richard M. Greek and Latin in English Today. Wauconda, Illinois: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1990. Laird, Charlton. The Miracle of Language. New York: The World Publishing Company, 1953. Laird, Charlton. The Word, A Look at the Vocabulary of English. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. Liberman, Anatoly. Etymology for Everyone, Word Origins . . . and how we know them. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Macrone, Michael. It's Greek to Me! New York: Cader Books, 1991. Maleska, Eugene T. It's Greek to Me!. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. McAdam, E.L., Jr. & George Milne. Johnson’s Dictionary, A Modern Selection. New York: Pantheon Books, 1963. McArthur, Tom. The Oxford Companion To the English Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. McCrum, Robert, et al. The Story of English. New York: Elisabeth Sifton Books-Viking, 1986. Moore, Bob and Maxine. Dictionary of Latin and Greek Origins. New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1997. Morris, William and Mary. TMorris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1971. Morwood, James. A Dictionary of Latin Words and Phrases. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1998. Muschell, David. Where in the Word? Prima Publishing: Rocklin, California, 1990. Nurnberg, Maxwell and Morris Rosenblum. All about Words, an Adult Approach to Vocabulary Building. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966. Oxford English Dictionary, The 2nd Ed. on Compact Disc. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Pei, Mario & Salvatore Ramondino. Dictionary of Foreign Terms. New York: Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1974. Pei, Mario. The Story of the English Language. New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1967. Pinkerton, Edward C. Word for Word. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company, 1982. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd Ed. New York: Random H ouse Inc, 1993.
Reader's Digest, Success with Words, A Guide to the American Language. Pleasantville, New York: The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 1983.
Robertson, Stuart. The Development of Modern English, 2nd Ed. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1954. Room, Adrian. Dictionary of Changes in Meaning. London: Rouitledge & Kegan Paul, 1986. Room, Adrian. Room’s Dictionary of Differences. New York: Everest House Publishers, 1981. Room, Adrian. True Etymologies. London and New York: Routledge, 1986. Sabin, Frances E. Classical Myths That Live Today. Morristown, New Jersey: Silver Burdett Company, 1958. Schleifer, Robert. Grow Your Vocabulary by Learning the Roots of English Words. New York: Random House, 1995. Schur, Norman W. 1000 Most Challenging Words. New York: Facts On File Publications, 1987. Schur, Norman W. 1000 Most Obscure Words. New York: Facts On File Publications, 1990. Schur, Norman W. 1000 Most Practical Words. New York: Facts On File Publications, 1983. Shipley, Joseph T. Dictionary of Word Origins. New York: The Philosophical Library, 1945. Shipley, Joseph T. In Praise of English. New York: Times Books, 1977. Smith, Robert W.L. Dictionary of English Word-Roots. Totowa, New Jersey: Littlefield, Adams & Co., 1980. Smith, S. Stephenson. The Command of Words, 2nd ed. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company Publishers, 1949. Tripp, Edward. Crowell’s Handbook of Classical Mythology. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1970. Tukleja, Tad. Fabulous Fallacies New York: Harmony Books, 1982. Urdang, Laurence. Loanwords Dictionary., 1st Ed. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company, 1988. Van Aken, A.R.A. The Encyclopedia of Classical Mythology. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1963. Verbatim Book: Volumes III and IV. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company, 1981.
Von Hagen, Victor W. The Roads That Led to Rome. Cleveland, Ohio: The World Publishing Company, 1967. Webster’s, New International Dictionary of the English Language, 2nd Ed. Unabridged. Springfield, Massachusetts: G. and C. Merriam Company, Publishers, 1952.
Webster’s II, New Riverside University Dictionary. Boston: The Riverside Publishing Company, 1984.
Webster’s, New World Dictionary of the American Language, 2nd College Ed. Cleveland, Ohio: William Collins/World Publishing Co., Inc., 1974.
Webster’s Word Histories. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster Inc., Publishers, 1989.
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
—Samuel Johnson 
Lists of sources of information from magazines, newspapers, radio, TV, etc.
Allman, William F. “The Mother Tongue.” U.S. News & World Report. November 5, 1990, pp. 60-70. Gamkrelidze, Thomas V. and V.V. Ivanov. “The Early History of Indo-European Languages.” Scientific American. March 1990, pp. 110-116. Renfrew, Colin. “The Origins of Indo-European Languages.” Scientific American. October 1989, pp. 106-114. Renfrew, Colin. “World Linguistic Diversity.” Scientific American. January 1994, pp. 116-123. Wright, Robert. “Quest for the Mother Tongue.” The Atlantic Monthly. April 1991, pp. 39-68. I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
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