Bibliographic Sources

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Vocabulary Activities

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Lists of sources of information from books, dictionaries, etc.

An Excess of Phobias and Manias. Los Angeles: Senior Scribe Publishers, 2003.

Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1992.

Achenbach, Joel. Why Things Are, Answers to Every Essential Question in Life. New York: Ballantine Books, 1991.

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992.

Appel, Anita S. and Rev. Benedict Kukolt. Mastering Latin, Two Years. New York: Oxford Book Company, 1967.

Asimov, Isaac. Words from the Myths. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961.

Asimov, Isaac. Of Time, space, and Other Things. New York: Avon Books, 1965.

Ayto, John. Dictionary of Word Origins. New York: Arcade Publishing, 1990.

Barber, Charles L. The Story of Speech and Language. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1965.

Barnett, Lincoln. The Treasure of Our Tongue. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.

Baugh, Albert C. A History of the English Language, 2nd ed. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1968.

Bible, Old and New Testaments. The Holy Bible, Revised Standard Version. New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1953.

Bible, King James Version The New Analytical Bible and Dictionary of the Bible.Chicago: John A. Dickson Publishing Company, 1950.

Black, Henry Campbell. Black’s Law Dictionary. St. Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing Co, 1990.

Bliss, A.J. A Dictionary of Foreign Words & Phrases in Current English. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979.

Boorstin, Daniel J. The Discoverers. New York: Random House, 1983.

Borgmann, Dmitri A. Language on Vacation. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1965.

Brandreth, Gyles. The Joy of Lex. New York: William Morrow and Company Inc., 1980.

Brandreth, Gyles. More Joy of Lex. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1982.

Brandreth, Gyles. The Word Book. London: Robson Books Ltd., 1988.

Brown, Raymond L. A Book of Epitaphs. New York: Taplinger Publisher Company, 1967.

Brown, Roland Wilbur. Composition of Scientific Words. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985.

Bryson, Bill. The Mother Tongue, English & How it Got That Way. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1990.

Burnam, Tom. The Dictionary of Misinformation. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1975.

Campbell, Robert Jean. Psychiatric Dictionary, 7th Ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Cassell’s New Latin Dictionary. New York: Funk and Wanalls Company, 1959.

Collings, Rex. A Crash of Rhinoceroses, a Dictionary of Collective Nouns. Wakefield, Rhode Island: Moyer Bell, 1993.

Cornog, Mary Wood. Merriam-Webster’s Vocabulary Builder. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, Incorporated, 1994.

Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Dickson, Paul. Words. New York: Delacorte Press, 1982.

Di Blasi, Augustine J. Words: Let’s Get to Their Roots, a Collection of Word Derivations. New York: William-Frederick Press, 1980.

Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary. Philadelphia, Pa.: W.B. Saunders Company, 2000.

Ehrlich, Eugene. Amo, Amas, Amat and More. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1985.

Ehrlich, Eugene. Veni, Vidi, Vici. New York: Harper Perennial, 1995.

Elster, Charles Harrington. There’s a Word for it! New York: Scribner, 1996.

Encarta World English Dictionary. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.

Ernst, Margaret S. In a Word. Great Neck, New York: Channel Press, 1960.

Feats and Wisdom of the Ancients. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1990.

Friend, J. Newton. Words Tricks and Traditions. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1957.

Funk, Charles Earle. A Hog on Ice & Other Curious Expressions. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1985.

Funk, Charles Earle. Horsefeathers and Other Curious Words New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958.

Funk, Charles Earle. Thereby Hangs a Tale, Stories of Curious Word Origins. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1985.

Funk, Charles Earle. Word Origins and Their Romantic Stories. New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1950.

Garrison, Webb,. What’s in a Word?. Nashville, Tennessee: Rutledge Hill Press, 2000.

Garrison, Webb,. Why You Say It. New York: Abingdon Press, 1955.

Gayley, Charles Mills. The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1939.

Girsdansky, Michael. The Adventure of Language. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-hall, Inc, 1963.

Greene, Amsel. Word Clues, 2nd Ed. Evanston, Illinois: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1949.

Gregory, Richard L. The Oxford Companion to the Mind. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Guerber, H. A. The Myths of Greece & Rome. New York: London House & Maxwell, 1967.

Guinagh, Kevin. Dictionary of Foreign Phrases and Abbreviations. New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1983.

Guterman, Norbert. The Anchor Book of Latin Quotations. New York: Anchor Books Doubleday, 1966.

Hadas, Moses. Imperial Rome. New York: Time Incorporated, 1965.

Hart, Archibald and F. Arnold Lejeune. The Latin Key to Better English. New York: E.P. Dutton 7 Co., Inc., 1949.

Hellweg, Paul. The Insomniac’s Dictionary. New York: Facts On File Publications, 1986.

Herzberg, Max J. Classical Myths. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1935.

Hitt, Jack, Ed. In a Word. New York: Dell Publishing, 1992.

Horowitz, Edward. Words Come in Families. New York: Hart Publishing Company, Inc., 1977.

International Dictionary of Medicine and Biology. Volumes I-III. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1986.

Jean, Georges. Writing the Story of Alphabets and Scripts. London: Thames and Hudson, 1994.

King, W. Francis H. Classical and Foreign Quotations. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co, No date given.

Klein, Dr. Ernest. A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, Volumes I and II. New York: Elsevier Publishing Company, 1966.

Kravitz, David. Who’s Who in Greek and Roman Mythology. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc./Publisher, 1975.

Krill, Richard M. Greek and Latin in English Today. Wauconda, Illinois: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1990.

Laird, Charlton. The Miracle of Language. New York: The World Publishing Company, 1953.

Laird, Charlton. The Word, A Look at the Vocabulary of English. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981.

Lewis, Norman. The Comprehensive Word Guide. Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1958.

Lincoln, R.J. and G.A. Boxshall. The Cambridge Illustrated Dictionary of Natural History. Cambridge, Great Britain: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Lipton, James. An Exaltation of Larks. New York: Viking Penguin, 1991.

Louis, David. 2201 Fascinating Facts. New York: Greenwich House, 1983.

Macrone, Michael. It’s Greek to Me!. New York: Cader Books, 1991.

Mawson, C.O. Sylvester. Dictionary of Foreign Terms. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1975.

McAdam, E.L., Jr. & George Milne. Johnson’s Dictionary, A Modern Selection. New York: Pantheon Books, 1963.

McCrum, Robert, et al. The Story of English. New York: Elisabeth Sifton Books-Viking, 1986.

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th Ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1989.

Monson, Samuel C. Word Building., 2nd Ed. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1968.

Moore, Bob and Maxine. Dictionary of Latin and Greek Origins. New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1997.

Morwood, James. A Dictionary of Latin Words and Phrases. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Murray, Margaret A. The Splendor That Was Egypt. New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1963.

National Geographic Society. Greece and Rome, Builders of Our World Washington D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1968.

Newmark, Maxim. Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases. New York: Dorset Press, 1992.

Norback, Craig and Peter. The Must Words. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1979.

Nurnberg, Maxwell and Morris Rosenblum. All about Words, an Adult Approach to Vocabulary Building. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966.

Oxford English Dictionary, The 2nd Ed. on Compact Disc. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Panati, Charles. The Browser’s Book of Beginnings, Origins of Everything Under (and including) the Sun. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984.

Panati, Charles. Panati’s Extraordinary Endings of Practically Everything and Everybody. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1989.

Panati, Charles. Panati’s Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1987.

Panati, Charles. Panati’s Parade of Fads, Follies, and Manias. New York: Harper Perennial, 1991.

Pei, Mario & Salvatore Ramondino. Dictionary of Foreign Terms. New York: Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1974.

Pei, Mario. The Story of the English Language. New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1967.

Pinkerton, Edward C. Word for Word. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company, 1982.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd Ed. New York: Random HKouse Inc, 1993.

Rasch, Philip J. Kinesiology and Applied Anatomy., 7th Ed. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1989.

Reader’s Digest. Strange Stories, Amazing Facts of America’s Past. Pleasantville, New York: The Reader’s: Digest Association, Inc., 1989.

Robertson, Stuart. The Development of Modern English, 2nd Ed. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1954.

Robinson, Andrew. The Story of Writing. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1995.

Room, Adrian. Dictionary of Changes in Meaning. London: Rouitledge & Kegan Paul, 1986.

Room, Adrian. Room’s Dictionary of Differences. New York: Everest House Publishers, 1981.

Rose, John E., Jr. Big Words for Big Shooters. New York: Everest House Publishers, 1982.

Sabin, Frances E. Classical Myths That Live Today. Morristown, New Jersey: Silver Burdett Company, 1958.

Schmidt, Jacob Edward. Reversicon, A Medical Word Finder. Springfield, Ilinois: Charles C. Thomas, 1958.

Shipley, Joseph T. Dictionary of Word Origins. New York: The Philosophical Library, 1945.

Shipley, Joseph T. In Praise of English. New York: Times Books, 1977.

Schur, Norman W. 1000 Most Challenging Words. New York: Facts On File Publications, 1987.

Schur, Norman W. 1000 Most Obscure Words. New York: Facts On File Publications, 1990.

Schur, Norman W. 1000 Most Practical Words. New York: Facts On File Publications, 1983.

Stedman’s Medical Dictionary, 27th Ed. New York: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 1999.

Stone, Jon R. Latin for the Illiterati. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, 18th Ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: F.A. Davis Company, 1997.

Tripp, Edward. Crowell’s Handbook of Classical Mythology. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1970.

Urdang, Laurence. Loanwords Dictionary., 1st Ed. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company, 1988.

Urdang, Laurence. Mottoes. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company, 1986.

Urdang, Laurence. -Ologies & -Isms, 3rd Ed. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company, 1986.

Urdang, Laurence. Prefixes and Other Word-Initial Elements of English. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company, 1984.

Urdang, Laurence. Suffixes and Other Word-Final Elements of English. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company, 1982.

Van Aken, A.R.A. The encyclopedia of Classical Mythology. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1963.

Verbatim Book: Volumes III and IV. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company, 1981.

Von Hagen, Victor W. The Roads That Let to Rome. Cleveland, Ohio: The World Publishing Company, 1967.

Webster’s, New International Dictionary of the English Language, 2nd Ed. Unabridged. Springfield, Massachusetts: G. and C. Merriam Company, Publishers, 1952.

Webster’s II, New Riverside University Dictionary. Boston: The Riverside Publishing Company, 1984.

Webster’s, New World Dictionary of the American Language, 2nd College Ed. Cleveland, Ohio: William Collins/World Publishing Co., Inc., 1974.

Webster’s Word Histories. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster Inc., Publishers, 1989.

Wells, Katharine F. Kinesiology, 3rd Ed. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1962.

Lists of sources of information from magazines, newspapers, radio, TV, etc.

Allman, William F. “The Mother Tongue.” U.S. News & World Report. November 5, 1990, pp. 60-70.

Gamkrelidze, Thomas V. and V.V. Ivanov. “The Early History of Indo-European Languages.” Scientific American. March 1990, pp. 110-116.

Renfrew, Colin. “The Origins of Indo-European Languages.” Scientific American. October 1989, pp. 106-114.

Renfrew, Colin. “World Linguistic Diversity.” Scientific American. January 1994, pp. 116-123.