Michael Quinion

9 books

Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins by Michael Quinion

Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins

Michael Quinion

224 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

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Gallimaufry: A Hodgepodge of Our Vanishing Vocabulary by Michael Quinion

Gallimaufry: A Hodgepodge of Our Vanishing Vocabulary

Michael Quinion

272 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

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Why is Q Always Followed by U?: Word-Perfect Answers to the Most Asked Questions About Language by Michael Quinion

Why is Q Always Followed by U?: Word-Perfect Answers to the Most Asked Questions About Language

Michael Quinion

368 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

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Gallimaufry: A Hodgepodge of our Vanishing Vocabulary by Michael Quinion, Michael Quinion

Gallimaufry: A Hodgepodge of our Vanishing Vocabulary

Michael Quinion, Michael Quinion

288 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

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Ologies And Isms: A Dictionary Of Word Beginnings And Endings by Michael Quinion
Ologies And Isms: A Dictionary Of Word Beginnings And Endings
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Michael Quinion

Ologies And Isms: A Dictionary Of Word Beginnings And Endings

Michael Quinion

280 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

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Port Out Starboard Home: And Other Language Myths by Michael Quinion

Port Out Starboard Home: And Other Language Myths

Michael Quinion

282 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

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Port Out, Starboard Home by Michael Quinion

Port Out, Starboard Home

Michael Quinion

282 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

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Port Out, Starboard Home: The Fascinating Stories We Tell About the words We Use by Michael Quinion
Port Out, Starboard Home: The Fascinating Stories We Tell About the words We Use
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Michael Quinion

Port Out, Starboard Home: The Fascinating Stories We Tell About the words We Use

Michael Quinion

304 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

Why is Q Always Followed by U?: Word-Perfect Answers to the Most-Asked Questions About Language by Michael Quinion
Why is Q Always Followed by U?: Word-Perfect Answers to the Most-Asked Questions About Language
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Michael Quinion

Why is Q Always Followed by U?: Word-Perfect Answers to the Most-Asked Questions About Language

Michael Quinion

368 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

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