Subject: English language › Etymology

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• East of Eden by John Steinbeck (8,251 copies)
• The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester (5,050 copies)
• The Compact Oxford English Dictionary by E. S. C. Weiner (805 copies)
• Dictionary of Word Origins: The Histories of More Than… by John Ayto (433 copies)
• Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society by Raymond Williams (381 copies)
• The shorter Oxford English dictionary by William Little (378 copies)
• Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages by Ammon Shea (270 copies)
• The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary by Lesley Brown (255 copies)
• Studies in Words by C. S. Lewis (245 copies)
• The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins… by Robert Hendrickson (201 copies)
• Word Origins: A Classic Exploration of Words and Language by Wilfred Funk (199 copies)
• The Oxford Dictionary of Word Histories by Glynnis Chantrell (197 copies)
• Thereby Hangs a Tale by Charles Earle Funk (189 copies)
• A Hog on Ice by Charles Earle Funk (185 copies)
• The Merriam-Webster New Book of Word Histories by Merriam-Webster (180 copies)
• Concise Dictionary of English Etymology (Wordsworth… by Walter W. Skeat (176 copies)
• Who Put Butter in Butterfly...and Other Fearless… by David Feldman (165 copies)
• Heavens to Betsy!: And Other Curious Sayings by Charles Earle Funk (164 copies)
• The F-Word by Jesse Sheidlower (161 copies)
• The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology by C. T. Onions (155 copies)
• Red Herrings and White Elephants by Albert Jack (154 copies)
• The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots by Calvert Watkins (154 copies)
• Why You Say It by Webb B. Garrison (154 copies)
• Word Myths, Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends by David Wilton (150 copies)
• It's Greek to Me by Michael Macrone (149 copies)
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology (Oxford… by T. F. Hoad (148 copies)
• The Play of Words by Richard Lederer (136 copies)
• Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English by Eric Partridge (127 copies)
• Best Baby Name Book In The Whole World by Bruce Lansky (127 copies)
• The Joy of Lex: How to Have Fun With 860,341,500 Words by Gyles Brandreth (123 copies)
• Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of… by John H. McWhorter (118 copies)
• A Dictionary of English Place-Names (Oxford Paperback… by A. D. Mills (116 copies)
• Port Out, Starboard Home by Michael Quinion (114 copies)
• Dictionary of Word Origins by Joseph Twadell Shipley (110 copies)
• The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English by Henry Hitchings (103 copies)
• Et Cetera, Et Cetera: Notes of a Word-Watcher by Lewis Thomas (102 copies)
• Growth and structure of the English language by Otto Jespersen (102 copies)
• Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins by William Morris (99 copies)
• Words from the Myths by Isaac Asimov (98 copies)
• The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English… by Peter Gilliver (98 copies)
• Horsefeathers and other curious words by Charles E. Funk (97 copies)
• Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology by Robert K. Barnhart (95 copies)
• Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language by Seth Lerer (93 copies)
• Swearing by Geoffrey Hughes (91 copies)
• Word Origins ... and How We Know Them: Etymology for… by Anatoly Liberman (90 copies)
• Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Dictionary) by Robert K. Barnhart (88 copies)
• The Word Detective: Solving the Mysteries Behind Those… by Evan Morris (87 copies)
• Word Mysteries and Histories: From Quiche to Humble Pie by American Heritage Publishing Company (86 copies)
• Wicked Words: A Treasury of Curses, Insults, Put-Downs, and… by Hugh Rawson (84 copies)
• The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two: The Hidden… by Anu Garg (84 copies)

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