Books published: 1. Casselman's Canadian Words: A Comic Browse through Words & Folk Sayings Invented by Canadians 1995 1st edition 1995 Copp Clark ISBN: 0-7730-5515-0 2nd edition 1997 Little, Brown ISBN: 0-316-13350-7 3rd edition 1999 McArthur & Company, Toronto, Canada many reprints through 2006 ISBN: 1-55278-034-1
2. Casselmania: More Wacky Canadian Words & Sayings 1996 Little, Brown Canada Ltd, Toronto, Canada ISBN: 0-316-13314-0
3. Canadian Garden Words: The Origin of Flower, Tree, and Plant Names, both wild and domestic, entertainingly derived from their sources in the Ancient Tongues together with Fancy Botanical Names & Why You Shall Never Again Be Afraid To Use Them! 1997 McArthur & Company,Toronto, Canada ISBN: 0-316-13343-4
4. A Dictionary of Medical Derivations: The Real Meanings of Medical Words 1998 Parthenon Publishing Group, London and New York ISBN: 1-85070-771-5
5. Canadian Food Words: The Juicy Lore & Tasty Origins of Foods That Founded a Nation 1998 McArthur & Company, Toronto, Canada 1999 reprinted with new cover McArthur & Company ISBN: 1-55278-018-X
6. Canadian Sayings: 1200 Folk Sayings Used by Canadians, Collected and Annotated by Bill Casselman 1999 McArthur & Company, Toronto, Canada ISBN: 1-55278-076-7
7. What's in a Canadian Name?: The Origins and Meanings of Canadian Surnames 2000 McArthur & Company, Toronto, Canada ISBN: 1-55278-141-0
8. Canadian Sayings 2: 1000 Folk Sayings Used by Canadians Newly Collected and Annotated by Bill Casselman 2002 McArthur & Company, Toronto, Canada ISBN: 1-55278-272-7
9. Canadian Sayings 3: 1000 Folk Sayings Used by Canadians Newly Collected and Annotated by Bill Casselman July 2004 McArthur & Company, Toronto, Canada ISBN: 1-55278-425-8
10. As The Canoe Tips: Comic Scenes from Canadian Life July 2005 McArthur & Company, Toronto, Canada This is the first collection of my own original funny pieces, satire and nonsense. ISBN: 1-55278-493-2
11. Canadian Words & Sayings July 2006 McArthur & Company, Toronto, Canada This collection includes new sayings and classic Canadian word stories suitable for the whole family and APPROVED FOR CLASSROOM USE. ISBN: 1-55278-569-6
12. Where a Dobdob Meets a Dikdik Mid-October 2010 A Word Lover’s Guide to the Weirdest, Wackiest, and Wonkiest Lexical Gems Publisher: Adams Media 57 Littlefield Street, Avon, Massachusetts 02322 U.S.A.
90% of the material in this 272-page paperback is available only in this book. All-new word fun from Bill Casselman and my first e-book availability. You can buy it online all over the world. Just type the title into Google and order. To be exact in orders, use any of these International Standard Book Numbers, which specify this book only: For a printed paperback - ISBN 10: 1-4405-0636-1 ISBN 13: 978-1-4405-0636-1 To order the e-book version - eISBN 10: 1-4405-1004-0 eISBN 13: 978-1-4405-1004-5
Partial Contributions to other books by Bill Casselman (William Gordon Casselman) :
1. Article on “Canadian Folk Sayings” in The ITP Nelson Canadian Dictionary of the English Language ITP Nelson, a division of Thomson Canada Limited, 1997, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada ISBN: 0-17-606591-1
2. Essay “See You When the Ice Worms Nest Again” in Inside Language: A Canadian Language Reader, eds. Jennifer Maclennan and John Moffat 2000 Prentice Hall Allyn and Bacon Canada, Scarborough, Ontario ISBN: 0-13-011267-4
3. Essay “Barrelhouse Kings: Something Barry Callaghan Left out of his Memoir” in Barry Callaghan: Essays on his Works ed. Priscila Uppal Guernica Writers Series # 24, Guernica Editions, Toronto, Canada, 2007 ISBN-13: 978-1-55071-253-7 ISBN-10: 1-55071-253-5
4. Chapter 32 “Digitariat” and Chapter 35 “Bafflegab and Gobbledygook: How Canadians Use English to Rant, to Lie, to Cheat, to Cover up Truth, and to Peddle Bafflegab” in Readings for Technical Communication, ed. Jennifer MacLennan, Oxford University Press Canada, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-19-542322-8
5. Essay “A Blunt History of the Word Cunt” in Vocabula Bound: Our Wresting, Writhing Tongue: Essays on the English Language from The Vocabula Review (online magazine about words) ed. Robert Hartwell Fiske Vocabula Books, Rockport, Massachusetts, USA, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-9774368-6-6
Any comments, corrections, emendations, additional word lore, orders for my books? Please email me at wordguy@shaw.ca
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