Allan Metcalf

10 books

America in So Many Words: Words That Have Shaped America by Allan Metcalf

America in So Many Words: Words That Have Shaped America

Allan Metcalf

320 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
From Skedaddle to Selfie: Words of the Generations by Allan Metcalf

From Skedaddle to Selfie: Words of the Generations

Allan Metcalf

209 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Life of Guy: Guy Fawkes, the Gunpowder Plot, and the Unlikely History of an Indispensable Word by Allan Metcalf

The Life of Guy: Guy Fawkes, the Gunpowder Plot, and the Unlikely History of an Indispensable Word

Allan Metcalf

176 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word by Allan Metcalf

OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word

Allan Metcalf

210 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
Predicting New Words: The Secrets of Their Success by Allan Metcalf

Predicting New Words: The Secrets of Their Success

Allan Metcalf

224 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction politics informative medium-paced
Bonus Episode: The Life of Guy – An Interview with Allan Metcalf by Kevin Stroud

Bonus Episode: The Life of Guy – An Interview with Allan Metcalf

Kevin Stroud

missing page info • missing pub info (editions) not a book user-added

How We Talk: American Regional English Today by Allan Metcalf

How We Talk: American Regional English Today

Allan Metcalf

206 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction funny informative reflective slow-paced
An Index By Region, Usage, And Etymology To The Dictionary Of American Regional English, Volumes I And Ii by Luanne Von Schneidemesser, Allan Metcalf

An Index By Region, Usage, And Etymology To The Dictionary Of American Regional English, Volumes I And Ii

Luanne Von Schneidemesser, Allan Metcalf

178 pages • first pub 1730 (editions)

challenging informative medium-paced
Presidential Voices: Speaking Styles from George Washington to George W. Bush by Allan Metcalf

Presidential Voices: Speaking Styles from George Washington to George W. Bush

Allan Metcalf

352 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

informative reflective fast-paced
The World in So Many Words: A Country-by-Country Tour of Words That Have Shaped Our Language by Allan Metcalf

The World in So Many Words: A Country-by-Country Tour of Words That Have Shaped Our Language

Allan Metcalf

298 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

reflective medium-paced