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Bill Casselman
1942 (Dunnville, Ontario) -
works by
nonfiction
- Casselman's Canadian Words: A Comic Browse through Words & Folk Sayings Invented by Canadians (1995 1st edition. 1995 Copp Clark 2nd edition. 1997 Little, Brown 3rd edition. 1999 McArthur & Company)
- Casselmania: More Wacky Canadian Words & Sayings (1996, Little, Brown)
- 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)
- A Dictionary of Medical Derivations: The Real Meanings of Medical Words (1998, Parthenon Publishing Group, London and New York)
- Canadian Food Words: The Juicy Lore & Tasty Origins of Foods That Founded a Nation (1998, McArthur & Company. 1999, reprinted with new cover McArthur & Company)
- Canadian Sayings: 1200 Folk Sayings Used by Canadians, Collected and Annotated by Bill Casselman (1999, McArthur & Company)
- What's in a Canadian Name?: The Origins and Meanings of Canadian Surnames (2000, McArthur & Company)
- Canadian Sayings 2: 1000 Folk Sayings Used by Canadians, Newly Collected and Annotated by Bill Casselman (2002, McArthur & Company)
- Canadian Sayings 3: 1000 Folk Sayings Used by Canadians, Newly Collected and Annotated by Bill Casselman (July 2004, McArthur & Company)
resources
- Bill Casselman official site
- extensive biography, bibliography, sample works, and ongoing news related to his career and books.
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