Bill Casselman (writer)
William Gordon Casselman (born 1942) is a Canadian writer and broadcaster. He has written about Canadian words, 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 2nd edition 1997 Little, Brown 3rd edition 1999 McArthur & Company, Casselmania: More Wacky Canadian Words & Sayings 1996 Little, Brown, Canadian Garden Words, 1997, McArthur & Company, A Dictionary of Medical Derivations: The Real Meanings of Medical Words, 1998, Parthenon Publishing Group, Canadian Food Words: The Juicy Lore & Tasty Origins of Foods That Founded a Nation 1998, 1999 McArthur & Company 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, Canadian Sayings : 1200 Folk Sayings Used by Canadians, Collected and Annotated by Bill Casselman,1999 McArthur & Company, Toronto, Canada Canadian Sayings 2: 1000 Folk Sayings Used by Canadians, 2002 McArthur & Company, Canadian Sayings 3: 1000 Folk Sayings Used by Canadians, 2004 McArthur & Company, As The Canoe Tips: Comic Scenes from Canadian Life, 2005 McArthur & Company, Canadian Words