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  • Online Etymological Dictionary
    The basic sources of this work are:
    Weekley's "An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English,"
    Klein's "A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language,"
    "Oxford English Dictionary" (second edition),
    "Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology,"
    Holthauzen's "Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Englischen Sprache,
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    Chapman's "Dictionary of American Slang."

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  • Quotations

    Bartlett, John. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
    Including over 11,000 quotations, the first new edition of John Bartlett's corpus to be published after his death in 1905 keeps most of his original work intact.

    The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996.
    The 65,000 essential quotations by 5,000 authors that constitute this authoritative collection represent the research of 154 experts and are divided into 6,500 subjects.

    Simpsons Contemporary Quotations. 1988.
    The most notable quotations since 1950, featuring over 9,000 entries from 4,000 sources organized into 25 categories and 60 sections.

    Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
    The 2,100 entries in this eminently researched collection form the constellation of collected wisdom in American political debate.

  • The Quotation Page
    "You've reached the oldest quotation site on the Web, established 1994. We have over 23,000 quotations online from over 2,600 authors, and more are added daily."

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    McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 9th Edition
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  • Thesauri

    Rogets II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995
    Containing 35,000 synonyms in an easy-to-use format, this thesaurus features succinct word definitions and an innovative hyperlinked category index by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary.

    Rogets International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases. 1922
    Mawsons modernization of the classic structure becomes even more user-friendly on Bartleby.com with 85,000 hyperlinked cross-references.
    Additionally, over 2,200 quotations from classic and modern authors illustrate the 1,000-plus entries.

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Wolfhard Touchard, M. L. S. Retired Reference & Database Librarian
Andrews University - July 2008