Bill Casselman

For a Canadian politician, see William H. Casselman.

William Gordon Casselman (born 1942, Dunnville, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian writer and broadcaster. He has written a number books about Canadian words and produced a number of radio and TV shows featuring comedy and linguistics. Casselman also maintains a website about English etymology and a blog, The Casselmanual.

Bibliography

• Casselman's Canadian Words: A Comic Browse through Words & Folk Sayings Invented by Canadians
  • 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, ISBN 1-55278-034-1
• Casselmania: More Wacky Canadian Words & Sayings 1996 Little, Brown, ISBN 0-316-13314-0
• Canadian Garden Words, 1997, McArthur & Company, ISBN 0-316-13343-4
• A Dictionary of Medical Derivations: The Real Meanings of Medical Words, 1998, Parthenon Publishing Group, ISBN 1-85070-771-5
• Canadian Food Words: The Juicy Lore & Tasty Origins of Foods That Founded a Nation 1998, 1999 McArthur & Company ISBN 1-55278-018-X
  • The book was a recipient of the 1999 Canadian Culinary Book Award
• What's in a Canadian Name? The Origins and Meanings of Canadian Surnames, 2000 McArthur & Company, ISBN 1-55278-141-0
• Canadian Sayings : 1200 Folk Sayings Used by Canadians, Collected and Annotated by Bill Casselman,1999 McArthur & Company, Toronto, Canada ISBN 1-55278-076-7
• Canadian Sayings 2: 1000 Folk Sayings Used by Canadians, 2002 McArthur & Company,ISBN 1-55278-272-7
• Canadian Sayings 3: 1000 Folk Sayings Used by Canadians, 2004 McArthur & Company,ISBN 1-55278-425-8
• As The Canoe Tips: Comic Scenes from Canadian Life, 2005 McArthur & Company, ISBN 1-55278-493-2
• Canadian Words & Sayings, 2006 McArthur & Company, ISBN 1-55278-569-6
• Where a Dobdob Meets a Dikdik, 2010, Adams Media, ISBN 1-4405-0636-1 (also available in several e-book formats)