Subject: English language › Etymology › Dictionaries

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• The Compact Oxford English Dictionary by Oxford University Press (875 copies)
• Dictionary of Word Origins: The Histories of More Than… by John Ayto (435 copies)
• The shorter Oxford English dictionary by William Little (382 copies)
• Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society by Raymond Williams (382 copies)
• The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary by Lesley Brown (256 copies)
• The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins… by Robert Hendrickson (201 copies)
• The Oxford Dictionary of Word Histories by Glynnis Chantrell (197 copies)
• The Merriam-Webster New Book of Word Histories by Merriam-Webster (181 copies)
• Concise Dictionary of English Etymology (Wordsworth… by Walter W. Skeat (176 copies)
• The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology by C. T. Onions (156 copies)
• The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots by Calvert Watkins (155 copies)
• Why You Say It by Webb B. Garrison (154 copies)
• It's Greek to Me by Michael Macrone (149 copies)
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology (Oxford… by T. F. Hoad (149 copies)
• Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English by Eric Partridge (127 copies)
• Dictionary of Word Origins by Joseph Twadell Shipley (111 copies)
• Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins by William Morris (99 copies)
• Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology by Robert K. Barnhart (95 copies)
• Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Dictionary) by Robert K. Barnhart (88 copies)
• Word Mysteries and Histories: From Quiche to Humble Pie by American Heritage Publishing Company (88 copies)
• Wicked Words: A Treasury of Curses, Insults, Put-Downs, and… by Hugh Rawson (84 copies)
• The Roots of English by Robert Claiborne (83 copies)
• The Oxford Dictionary of Allusions by Andrew Delahunty (62 copies)
• Devious Derivations by Hugh Rawson (62 copies)
• Dictionary of Word Origins: A History of the Words,… by Jordan Almond (60 copies)
• The Secret Lives of Words by Paul West (59 copies)
• When Is a Pig a Hog?: A Guide to Confoundingly Related… by Bernice Randall (51 copies)
• Loose Cannons and Red Herrings: A Book of Lost Metaphors by Robert Claiborne (46 copies)
• An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter W. Skeat (37 copies)
• Word Histories and Mysteries: From Abracadabra to Zeus by Editors of The American Heritage Dictionaries (36 copies)
• Casual Lex: An Informal Assemblage of Why We Say What We… by Webb Garrison (25 copies)
• Americanisms: A Dictionary of Selected Americanisms on… by Mitford McLeod Mathews (24 copies)
• Word Stems: A Dictionary by John Kennedy (23 copies)
• Even-Steven and Fair and Square: More Stories Behind the… by Morton S. Freeman (19 copies)
• The Story Behind the Word (The Professional writing series) by Morton S. Freeman (19 copies)
• Dictionary of Early English by Joseph T. Shipley (19 copies)
• A Dictionary of True Etymologies by Adrian Room (19 copies)
• Short dictionary of classical word origins by Harry Ezekiel Wedeck (18 copies)
• The Private Lives of English Words (A Wynwood lexicon) by Louis G. Heller (17 copies)
• Why Do We Say...?: Words and Sayings and Where They Come… by Nigel Rees (17 copies)
• Cassell's Dictionary of Word Histories by Adrian Room (16 copies)
• Medical Meanings: A Glossary of Word Origins, Second… by William S. Haubrich (15 copies)
• Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series, Vol. 1 by John Simpson (14 copies)
• Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series, Vol. 2 by John A. Simpson (13 copies)
• An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English by Ernest Weekley (12 copies)
• Ship to Shore: A Dictionary of Everyday Words and Phrases… by Peter D. Jeans (12 copies)
• Origins of Sea Terms by John G. Rogers (11 copies)
• I Didn't Know That: From "Ants in the Pants" to "Wet Behind… by Karlen Evins (10 copies)
• The Henry Holt Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins by Robert Hendrickson (10 copies)
• Blackie's compact etymological dictionary. Rev. by R.F.… by Richard John Cunliffe (10 copies)

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