Oxford dictionary of word origins

Strange vernaculars how eighteenth-century slang, cant, provincial languages, and nautical jargon became English per Sorensen, Janet

The Oxford handbook of the word

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Borrowed words a history of loanwords in English per Durkin, Philip

Modernism keywords per Cuddy-Keane, Melba, Hammond, Adam, Peat, Alexandra

Borrowed words a history of loanwords in English per Durkin, Philip

A thesaurus of English word roots per Danner, Horace Gerald

Words of the world a global history of the Oxford English dictionary per Ogilvie, Sarah

The history of English spelling per Upward, Christopher, Davidson, George

Interesting stories behind words per Gonzales, Teresita D.