About Words

• Word Mysteries and Histories: From Quiche to Humble Pie

• Modern Philosophy of Language

• Language Myths

• Watch Your Language

• The Importance of Language

• The Copywriter's Handbook

• Child's Talk: Learning to Use Language

• Made in America

• On Language (contains Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language)

• A Browser's Dictionary: A Compendium of Curious Expressions & Intriguing Facts

• Words: A Connoisseur's Collection of Old and New, Weird and Wonderful, Useful and Outlandish

• Amo, Amas, Amat and More: How to Use Latin to Your Own Advantage and to the Astonishment of Others

• Is There a Cow in Moscow?
• There is No Zoo in Zoology
• There's a Word for It!

• Dictionary of Humorous Quotations

• Off the Clock: A Lexicon of Time Words and Expressions

• Do Penguins Have Knees?
• When Do Fish Sleep?
• Who Put the Butter in Butterfly?

• Linguistics Terms and Concepts

• Modern American Usage: A Guide

• A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
• A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (second edition - revised and edited by Sir Ernest Gowers)

• Heavens to Betsy!
• A Hog on Ice
• Thereby Hangs a Tale

• MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (5th ed.)

• The Romance Languages

• The Handbook of Good English

• Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language
• Crazy English: The Ultimate Joy Ride Through Our Language
• Get Thee to a Punnery
• The Miracle of Language
• The Play of Words: Fun & Games for Language Lovers

• The Comprehensive Word Guide

• American English in Its Cultural Setting

• The American Language

• Vanishing Voices: The Extinction ofthe World's Languages

• Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction

• The Romance Languages

• Webster's New Dictionary
  (compact edition)

• Language Maven Strikes Again
• On Language
• What's the Good Word?
• You Could Look It Up
   

• The Concise Oxford Dictionary

• The Professor and the Madman