Linguistics - Etymology
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Depraved and Insulting English
$15.99 Add to cartOriginally published as two distinct collections, Depraved and Insulting English brings to light the language’s most offensive and obscene words–words that have fallen out of today’s lexicon but will… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Novobatzky, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 14 2002
- ISBN10: 0156011492
- Language: English
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Hair of the Dog to Paint the Town Red: The Curious Origins of Everyday Sayings and Fun Phrases
$19.95 Add to cartDiscover hundreds of intriguing, entertaining, and often hilarious origins to the English language’s most curious phrases in this fascinating trivia book from best-selling author Andrew Thompson.
Engl- Author: Thompson, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1612439640
- Language: English
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The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism, Second Edition
$22.50 Add to cartCelebrating the short, witty, philosophical phrases known as aphorisms, this delightful history is an entertaining tour through the wisest and wittiest sayings in the world.
Aphorisms are literature’- Author: Geary, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0226838609
- Language: English
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Useless Etymology: Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds
$19.99 Add to cartDid you know that an “astronaut” is literally a “star sailor,” that a thesaurus is, in fact, a “treasure
Have you
trove” of words, and that someone who is “sinister” is actually just “left-handed”?- Author: Zafarris, Jess
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1399809180
- Language: English
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Buckley: The Right Word
$21.99 Add to cartBuckley’s provocative observations on the use and abuse of English, gathered for the first time in a single volume – a “veritable cornucopia of language and logic that belongs in every library” (Libra… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Buckley, William F., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0156005697
- Language: English
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Heavens to Betsy!: & Other Curious Sayings
$17.99 Add to cartHe’s as mad as a hatter!
Whether it’s like a bump on a log or a bat out of hell, these expressions have been around forever, but we’ve never really known why … until now! Finally Dr. Funk explains m
- Author: Funk, Charles E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 22 2002
- ISBN10: 0060513314
- Language: English
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A Little Book of Language
$15.00 Read moreA lively journey through the story of language, from an infant’s first word to the languages of the internet
Language never leaves you alone. It’s there in your head, helping you think. It’s there to- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Crystal, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300283237
- Language: English
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Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland
$28.00 Add to cartWith warmth, a popular radio and podcast host shares her love of language, weaving together linguistic history, regional phrases, the hidden poetry in etymologies, new words, and stories from her life… [more below]
- Author: Barnette, Martha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1419778846
- Language: English
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Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words
$28.00 Add to cartWith his trademark humor and flair, bestselling linguist John McWhorter busts the myths and shares the history of the most controversial language topic of our times: pronouns
The nature of language is- Author: McWhorter, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0593713281
- Language: English
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
$17.00 Add to cartA survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar
Why do we say “I am reading a catalog” instead of “I read a catalog”? Why do we say “do” at- Author: McWhorter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1592404944
- Language: English
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Getting to the Roots of Social Studies Vocabulary Levels 6-8
$29.99 Read moreExpand your students’ content-area vocabulary and improve their understanding with this roots-based approach! This standards-based resource, geared towards secondary grades, helps students comprehend … [more below]
- Series: Getting to the Roots of Content-Area Vocabulary
- Author: Rasinski, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1425808689
- Language: English
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Kiss My Asterisk: A Feisty Guide to Punctuation and Grammar
$14.95 Read moreGrammar has finally let its hair down Unlike uptight grammar books that overwhelm us with every single grammar rule, Kiss My Asterisk is like a bikini: it’s fun, flirty, and covers only the most impo… [more below]
- Author: Baranick, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1628737506
- Language: English
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Words on the Move: Why English Won’t – And Can’t – Sit Still (Like, Literally)
$20.99 Add to cartLanguage is always changing, but the way English is spoken today rubs many of us the wrong way. Whether it’s the use of literally to mean “figuratively,” or the way young people use LOL or business ja
- Author: McWhorter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 1250143780
- Language: English
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots
$24.99 Add to cartThe American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots traces over 13,000 words, representing nearly 1,350 basic roots, to their origins in Proto-Indo-European, the prehistoric ancestor of English. T
- Author: Watkins, Calvert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 13 2011
- ISBN10: 054754944X
- Language: English
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Ntc’s Dictionary of Latin and Greek Origins
$27.00 Add to cartThis unique reference equips students with vocabulary skills that will last a lifetime. Students study Latin and Greek roots and learn the huge number of English words that derive from them. The impre… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 02 1997
- ISBN10: 0844283215
- Language: English
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Words from Hell: Unearthing the Darkest Secrets of English Etymology
$14.99 Add to cartThe English language is where words go to be tortured and mutilated into unrecognizable shadows of their former selves. It’s where Latin, Greek, and Germanic roots are shredded apart and stitched unce… [more below]
- Author: Zafarris, Jess
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1399808214
- Language: English
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Beautiful Words: A Celebration for Word Lovers
$19.99 Add to cartExplore the beauty and intrigue of the English language through this collection of the most fascinating words in the dictionary.
Close your eyes for a moment and think of the word “solitude”. What do y
- Author: Cider Mill Press
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1951511549
- Language: English
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Teaching English Language Learners Across the Content Areas
$45.27 Add to cartEnglish language learners (ELLs) often face the difficult challenge of learning both a new language and new subject matter at the same time. In Teaching English Language Learners Across the Content Ar
- Author: Haynes, Judie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 183
- Publish Date: February 05 2010
- ISBN10: 1416609121
- Language: English
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The New Joys of Yiddish: Completely Updated
$22.00 Add to cartEnjoy the most comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of the colorful and deeply expressive language of Yiddish. With the recent renaissance of interest in Yiddish, and in keeping with a l… [more below]
- Author: Rosten, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 26 2003
- ISBN10: 0609806920
- Language: English
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The Elements of Eloquence: Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase
$20.00 Read moreFrom the #1 international bestselling author of The Etymologicon and The Horologicon comes an education in the art of articulation, from the King James Bible to Katy Perry…
From classic poetry to pop… [more below]- Author: Forsyth, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 042527618X
- Language: English
