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Recommended Reading

Ammer, Christine
    Have A Nice Day -- No Problem! A Dictionary of Clichés, Plume Books, NY, 1993

Ammer, Christine
    Fighting Words, NTC Publishing Group, Chicago, 1999

Ayto, John
    A Gourmet's Guide: Food & Drink from A to Z, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 1994

Ayto, John
    Dictionary of Word Origins, Arcade Publishing, NY, 1990

Ayto, John
    20th Century Words, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 1999

Barnhart, Robert K., Ed.
    The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology, The H.W. Wilson Co.

Blakiston's New Gould Medical Dictionary, The Blakiston Co., NY, 1949

Bryson, Bill
    Made in America, William Morrow and Company, Inc., NY, 1995

Byrne, Josefa Heifetz
    Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary, University Books, NJ, 1974

Ciardi, John
    Good Words to You, Harper and Row, NY

Claiborne, Robert
    The Roots of English, Times Books, NY, 1989

Claiborne, Robert
    Our Marvelous Native Tongue, Times Books, NY, 1983

Crystal, David
    The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995

Crystal, David
    An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Language and Languages, Penguin Books, London, UK, 1992

Dalzell, Tom
    Flappers 2 Rappers: American Youth Slang, Merriam-Webster, Springfield MA, 1996

Dickson, Paul
    War Slang, Pocket Books, NY, 1994

Flavell, Linda & Roger
    The Chronology of Words and Phrases, Kyle Cathie Limited, London, UK, 1999

Flexner, Stuart Berg
    Listening to America, Simon and Schuster, NY, 1982

Flexner, Stuart Berg and Anne H. Soukhanov
    Speaking Freely, A Guided Tour of American English, Oxford Univ. Press, NY, 1997

Freeman, Morton S.
    Hue and Cry and Humble Pie: The Stories Behind the Words, Plume Books, NY, 1993

Funk, Charles Earle
    A Hog on Ice and Other Curious Sayings, Perennial Library, NY, 1985

Funk, Charles Earle
    Heavens to Betsy! & Other Curious Sayings, Perennial Library, NY, 1986

Funk, Charles Earle
    Thereby Hangs a Tale: Stories of Curious Word Origins, Perennial Library, NY, 1985

Funk, Wilfred
    Word Origins and Their Romantic Stories, Bell Publishing Company, NY, 1978

Gelbert, Doug
    So Who the Heck Was Oscar Mayer? Barracade Books, Inc., NY, 1996

Grimal, Pierre
    The Pengin Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Penguin Books, London, UK, 1991

Grothe, Mardy
    Never let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You, Viking, NY, 1999
    Website: http://www.chiasmus.com/

Hanks, Patrick and Flavia Hodges
    A Dictionary of Surnames, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 1988

Hendrickson, Robert
    The Facts on File Word and Phrase Origins, Facts on File, Inc., NY, 1997

Hirsch, E.D., Jr., Joseph F. Kett, James Trefil
    The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1988

Kacirk, Jeffery
    The Word Museum, Touchstone, NY, 2000

Kohl, Herbert
    From Archetype to Zeitgeist, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, MA, 1992

Landau, Sidney I.
    Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, Cambridge Univ.Press, NY

Lighter, J.E., ed.
    Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang. 2 vols. Random House, NY, 1994-97

McCrum, Robert, William Cran, Robert MacNeil
    The Story of English, Elisabeth Sifton Books, Viking Penguin, Inc., NY 1986

McQuain, Jeffery
    Never Enough Words, Random House, NY, 1999

Mackay, Charles
    The Lost Beauties of the English Language, Arno Press, NY

Mills, Jane
    Womanwords: A Dictionary of Words About Women, The Free Press, NY, 1992

Morris, Evan
    The Word Detective, Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill, 2000

Morris, William, and Mary D. Morris
    Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins. 2nd ed. Harper-Collins, NY, 1988

Palmatier, Robert A. and Harold L. Ray, eds
    Sports Talk, A Dictionary of Sports Metaphors, Greenwood Press

Panati, Charles
    Panati's Extraordianry Origins of Everyday Things, Harper & Row, Publishers, NY, 1989

Randall, Bernice
    When is a Pig a Hog? Prentice Hall, NY, 1991

Rawson, Hugh
    A Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Double Talk, Crown Publishers Inc., NY, 1981

Rawson, Hugh
    Wicked Words, Crown Publishers, NY, 1989

Rees, Nigel
    The Cassell Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins, Cassell, London, UK, 1998

Rheingold, Howard
    They Have a Word for It, Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., Los Angeles, 1988

Rogers, James
    The Dictionary of Clichés, Wings Books, NY, 1985

Room, Adrian
    The Cassell Dictionary of Word Histories, Cassell, London, UK 1999

Schwab, Gustav
    Gods and Heroes, Pantheon Books, NY 1974

Smith, Chrysti M.
    Verbivore's Feast: A Banquet of Word and Phrase Origins from Chrysti the Wordsmith, Farcountry Press, MT, 2004

Sorel, Nancy Caldwell
    Word People, American Heritage Press, NY, 1970

Soukhanov, Anne H.
    Word Watch: The Stories Behind the Words of Our Lives, Henry Holt and Co., NY, 1995

Sperling, Susan Kelz
    Tenderfeet and Ladyfingers, Penguin Books, NY, 1982

Success With Words, Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 1983

Tannahill, Reay
    Food in History, Crown Publishers, Inc., NY, 1989

The Oxford English Dictionary, Clarendon Press, Oxford, UK,

Tuleja, Tad
    Marvelous Monikers, Harmony Books, NY, 1990

Urdang, Laurence
    The Dictionary of Confusable Words, Ballantine Books, NY, 1989

Vanoni, Marvin
    I've Got Goose Pimples, Quill, William Morrow, NY. 1989

White, Robert
    An Avalanche of Anoracks, Crown Trade Paperbacks, NY

Webber, Elizabeth, and Mike Feinsilber
    Merriam Webster's Dictionary of Allusions, Merriam-Webster, Inc., Springfield, MA, 1999

Webster's Word Histories, Merriam-Webster, Inc., Springfield, MA, 1989

Wells, Diana
    100 Birds and How They Got Their Names, Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill, 2002

Wentworth, Harold and S.B. Flexner, eds.
    Dictionary of American Slang, Thomas Y. Crowell, NY, 1960

Winchester, Simon
    The Professor and the Madman, HarperPerennial, NY, 1998

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