Reviews section index
This is the archive of book and CD-ROM reviews that have appeared in the newsletter and for which the relevant works are still in print.
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A Word A Day
A Word in Your Shell-Like
America In So Many Words
American Heritage Dictionary
An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology
Balderdash & Piffle
Barrelhouse Words
Begat
Blooming English
Brave New Words
By Hook or By Crook
Chambers Dictionary of Etymology
Chambers Slang Dictionary
Chronicle of American Literature
Coined by God
Coined by Shakespeare
Damp Squid
Depraved and Insulting English
Dictionary of American Regional English
Eats, Shoots and Leaves
Fanboys and Overdogs
Far From the Madding Gerund
Faux Pas?
Foyle’s Philavery
From Elvish to Klingon
Gallimaufry
Garner’s Modern American Usage
Globish
Gobbledygook
Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Hatchet Jobs and Hardball
I Love It When You Talk Retro
I’m Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears
In Other Words
In the Land of Invented Languages
It’s All in a Word
Language Visible
Longman Pronunciation Dictionary
Macquarie Dictionary
Mighty Fine Words and Smashing Expressions
Mind the Gaffe
OED Historical Thesaurus
OK
Oxford Dictionary of English
Oxford Guide to Word Games
Port Out, Starboard Home
Presidential Voices
Slang: The People’s Poetry
Stunned Mullets and Two-pot Screamers
Superior Words
The Adventure of English
The Art of Punctuation / A Dash of Style
The F Word
The First English Slang Dictionary
The Grouchy Grammarian
The Language Report 2007
The Language Wars
The Meaning of Tingo
The New Oxford American Dictionary
The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang
The Official Dictionary of Unofficial English
The Ring of Words
The Secret Life of Words
The Stories of English
Three books in brief
Through the Language Glass
Treasure-House of the Language
Two books on euphemisms
Two Brewer's Dictionaries
Verbatim
Virtual Words
Weeds in the Garden of Words
Weird and Wonderful Words
Why is Q Always Followed by U?
Word Histories and Mysteries
Word Origins and How We Know Them
Words, Words, Words
Writing and Script
