Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, & Spuds

Dave Wilton, Thursday, February 01, 2007

Quinion, M. (2004). Ballyhoo, buckaroo, and spuds: ingenious tales of words and their origins. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Books.

An entertaining and well-researched volume on word origins. Quinion is the proprietor of the World Wide Words website.

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