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Dictionary

Awe, Susan C., ed. ARBA Guide to Subject Encyclopedias and Dictionaries. Libraries Unlimited, 1997. A comprehensive guide to reference works.

Ehrlich, Eugene H. The Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordinarily Literate. HarperCollins, 1997. This companion volume to the Highly Selective Thesaurus for the Extraordinarily Literate focuses on the most confusing and misused words in the language, relating the finer points of sense and meaning.

Frawley, William, and others, eds. Making Dictionaries: Preserving Indigenous Languages of the Americas. University of California Press, 2002. Underscores the need to preserve languages faced with extinction.

Landau, Sidney I. Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography. 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 2001. Comprehensive guide to English language dictionaries and their development.

Murray, Katharine Maud Elisabeth, and R. W. Burchfield. Caught in the Web of Words: James A. H. Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary. Yale University Press, 1977, 2001. The absorbing story of the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, the dictionary's history, and the persons who contributed to it.

Winchester, Simon. The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press, 2003. Fast-paced narrative telling how the comprehensive dictionary came to be.

Etymology

Chambers Dictionary of Etymology. Larousse Kingfisher, 1999. The reference for wordsmiths.

Almond, Jordan. Dictionary of Word Origins: A History of the Words, Expressions and Clichés We Use. Citadel, 1995. Handy reference for the origins of frequently used words and expressions.

Bevington, Gary. Where Do Words Come From? An Introduction to Etymology. Kendall/Hunt, 1995. The intriguing origins of hundreds of everyday words and expressions.

Chantrell, Glynnis, ed. The Oxford Dictionary of Word Histories. Oxford University Press, 2002. Describes the origins of over 11,000 words in the English language.

Hoad, T. F., ed. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. Oxford University Press, 1986, 1993. Based on the authoritative unabridged edition (1966), this paperback edition retains the historical approach.

Klein, Ernest. A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language. Elsevier, 1971, 1979. “Dealing with the Origin of Words and Their Sense Development, Thus Illustrating the History of Civilization and Cultures” (title page).

Mish, Frederick, C., ed. The Merriam-Webster New Book of Word Histories. Merriam-Webster, 1991, 1995. Traces the respective histories of about 1,500 English words.

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