Books like Beyond Words

#1

The Lexicon — William F. Buckley (Jr.)

William F. Buckley Jr.

Themes: Word Lists • Sociolinguistics • Etymology

#2

Mental Floss: The Curious Compendium of Wonderful Words A Miscellany of Obscure Terms, Bizarre Phrases & Surprising Etymologies

Erin McCarthy & the team at Mental Floss

Themes: Word Lists • Etymology • Linguistics

#3

500 Years of New Words

Bill Sherk

Themes: Word Lists • Etymology • Linguistics

#4

Grandiloquent Words A Pictoric Lexicon of Ostrobogulous Locutions

Jason Travis Ott

Themes: Word Lists • Etymology • Linguistics

#5

Semantic Antics How and why Words Change Meaning

Sol Steinmetz

Themes: Word Lists • Etymology • Linguistics

#6

Portmanteau A-Z An Alphabet of Portmanteau Words

Rebecca May

Themes: Word Lists • Etymology • Linguistics

#7

Semicolon The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark

Cecelia Watson

Themes: Sociolinguistics • Etymology • Linguistics

#8

The Book of Scottish Names

Iain Zaczek

Themes: Word Lists • Etymology • Linguistics

#9

Collins Writer’s Thesaurus of the English Language

Ian Brookes

Themes: Word Lists • Sociolinguistics • Linguistics

#10

Six Words You Never Knew Had Something to Do with Pigs And Other Fascinating Facts about the English Language

Katherine Barber

Themes: Word Lists • Etymology • Linguistics

#11

Bees Knees and Barmy Armies – Origins of the Words and Phrases We Use Every Day

Harry Oliver

Themes: Word Lists • Etymology • Linguistics

#12

The Meaning of Tingo And Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World

Adam Jacot de Boinod

Themes: Word Lists • Etymology • Linguistics

#13

There’s a Word for it The Explosion of the American Language Since 1900

Sol Steinmetz

Themes: Word Lists • Etymology • Linguistics

#14

An Avalanche of Anoraks

Robert J. White

Themes: Word Lists • Etymology • Linguistics

#15

The Horologicon A Day’s Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language

Mark Forsyth

Themes: Word Lists • Etymology • Linguistics

#16

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

Michael Quinion

Themes: Word Lists • Etymology • Linguistics

#17

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

Michael Quinion

Themes: Word Lists • Etymology • Linguistics

#18

The Liverpool English Dictionary A Record of the Language of Liverpool 1850-2015

Tony Crowley

Themes: Word Lists • Sociolinguistics • Linguistics

#19

Shaggy Dogs and Black Sheep The Origins of Even More Phrases We Use Every Day

Albert Jack

Themes: Word Lists • Etymology • Linguistics

#20

100 Words to Make You Sound Smart

Editors of the American Heritage Di

Themes: Word Lists • Etymology • Linguistics

#21

The Dictionary of Difficult and Unusual Words Over 10,000 Confusing Terms Explained

Diagram Group

Themes: Word Lists • Etymology • Linguistics

#22

Common Phrases and where They Come from

Myron Korach

Themes: Word Lists • Etymology • Linguistics

#23

The Origin of Names, Words and Everything in Between Volume II

Patrick Foote

Themes: Word Lists • Etymology • Linguistics

#24

Wordslut A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

Amanda Montell

Themes: Sociolinguistics • Etymology • Linguistics