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Links
http://www.wolinskyweb.com/word.htm
http://www.syndicate.com/power.html
http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym.html
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~itesls/anagrams/
http://www.nanana.com/wordgames.html
http://wheel.station.sony.com/
http://www.wordzap.com/enigma/
http://www.intuitive.com/cgi-local/etymologic.cgi
(click on each title to read about the book on Amazon)
The
Whole Ball of Wax and Other Colloquial Phrases : What They
Mean
and How They Started
The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson
Who
Put the Butter in Butterfly? : And Other Fearless Investigations
into
Our Illogical Language
Lederer, Richard Anguished English
More
Anguished English/an Expose of Embarrassing
Excruciating,
and Egregious Errors in English
The
Play of Words : Fun and Games for Language Lovers
Crazy English : The Ultimate Joy Ride Through Our Language
Dictionary of Word Origins - A History of the Words, Expressions, and Cliches We Use
A Hog on Ice and Other Curious Expressions.
Funk, Charles Earle: Thereby Hangs a Tale
It's
Raining Cats and Dogs...and Other Beastly Expressions
by
Christine Ammer
The
Dictionary of American Slang by Robert L. Chapman,
Horse-Feathers & Other Curious Words.
Randall, Bernice: WHEN IS A PIG A HOG? A Guide To Confoundingly Related English
Heavens to Betsy! and Other Curious Sayings
Southpaws & Sunday Punches : And Other Sporting Expressions
Off
the Clock : A Lexicon of Time Words and Expressions
by
Kimberly Olson Fakih
Seeing
Red or Tickled Pink : Colorful Terms in Everyday Language (Plume Books
for Wordwatchers)
by
Christine Ammer
Even-Steven
and Fair and Square : More Stories Behind the Words (Plume Books for Wordwatchers)
by
Morton S. Freeman