Books About Words

Michael Quinion has at his Web site reviews of the following books that should be of interest to word lovers:

• Two Books on Wordplay, by David Crystal and Richard Lederer
• America in So Many Words, by David K Barnhart & Allan A Metcal
• Coined by Shakespeare, by Jeffrey McQuain and Stanley Malless
• A Glossary for The Nineties, by David Rowan
• Jesse's Word of the Day, By Jesse Sheidlower
• The Slang of Sin, By Tom Dalzell

See Michael Quinion's complete list of book and CD reviews at World Wide Words.