americanisms

Discusses the origins of words that have been added to the English language by Americans, featuring one representative word for each year from 1751 through 1998, and includes examples from earlier years beginning with the first English-speaking settlements in 1555.

A collection of quotes and phrases by many of the United States presidents.

Presents a humorous look at the English language, including information on word and phrase origins, slang, style, usage, punctuation, and pronunciation.

Presents the stories behind the origin and development of approximately two hundred significant American words and phrases.

A reference containing nearly 20,000 entries for English language abbreviations including those used for slang, emoticons and text-messaging, Internet, scientific and technical terms, and more.

Explores the slang of twentieth-century American youth from before the 1920s through the 1990s, with individual discussion of each era and an alphabetical word list with definitions.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that define 20,000 acronyms and abbreviations, including airport codes, colleges and university names, sports terminology, Internet chat room terms, and terms from scores of other topic areas.

Contains over 58,000 entries with scienitific terms and abbreviations.