(folders (bold titles) presented in alphabetic order)
Aboriginal Roots
Sipiy (Algonkian) = River (English)
Michif, Métis, Nishga'a, Bluenose: Origin of Names
As The Canoe Tips: Comic Scenes from Canadian Life
sample page one from my book of funny pieces
sample page 3: Summer Words for a Winter Day
Barry Callaghan:Essays on His Works
A page with a sample from an essay by Bill Casselman about the writings of Barry Callaghan.
BIOGRAPHY
Bio of Bill Casselman in point form.
Buy Bill Casselman Books Online at indigo.ca
Book Reviews of Word Books
#1: Curse & Berate in 69+ Languages March 2008
Brand & Product Name Origins
Telestrator: Origin of a Product Name
Canadian Geographic Magazine
A column from March 1997: Nincompoop Bureaucrats Bungle a Bridge Name
Canadian Word of the Day™
Index to Archives of BC's CWOD
Canada & Canuck: Origin of the Words
Régale: Its Unique Canadian Meaning
Hootch: A Word for Home Brew Made Popular in Canada
Bonspiel: Origin of a Curling Term
Avril Lavigne's Surname Explained
Stumping: New Brunswick Courting Practice & Corduroy Roads
Chimo ! : Meaning of an Inuit Greeting
Diana Krall: The Meaning of her Names
Kiack: Origin of Nova Scotia Fish Word
Orillia: Spanish Place Names in Canada (1 of 3)
Tofino, Quadra, Galiano, Valdes (2)
Almonte, Oro Grande Gulch, Alhambra (3)
Summer & The Origins of the Words for the 4 Seasons
Zed & Zee in Canadian Speech & Spelling
Canadian Summer Sayings: Happy Sayings Just to Laugh About
Canadian, Eh? The True Story of an Interjection
Skookum: A British Columbia Word
Sockeye Salmon & Ichthyology & Ichthys as Christian Symbol
The Origins of the Names of the Great Lakes
Casselman's Canadian Words
sample page one: Introducing Canadian words
Skookum Skookumchuck, Chicamin, Chinook, Muckamuck, Hyak, Siwash
Lake Huron is a Racist Insult.
To Fox a Horse: PEI Historical Phrase
Ballard Effect, Chanting the Cock, Misery Fiddle and other Canadian History Words
Canadian Food Words
Newfoundland Food Words like Lassy Mogs, Pratie Oatens, Scrunchins, and Squatum
Prince Edward Island's Irish Moss Words
Ontario Food Words like Pablum, Beavertails, and Haw-eaters
Quebec & Acadian Word PoutineMangeurs de lard versus Hivernants
Moose Muffle Soup ? A Canadian Pioneer Recipe
Butter Tart: 100% Canadian Pastry
Canadian Garden Words
How Botanical Names Work plus Origin of Flower Names like Nasturtium, Pansy, and Cowslip
Plant Names like Camas, Mistletoe, Orchid, Avocado, Aubergine, Daisy, and Aster
Ojibwa Maple Myth and Extensive History of the Word 'Maple'
Botanical Names: A Quick Guide
Canadian Place Names
Canadian Place Names - Unpublished
Dilbit & Synbit: Alberta Oil Words & Places
Religious Place Names of Canada
Canadian Words & Sayings
Promo and sample page for this 2006 collection of my best word stories and sayings, with all articles specially edited for home and school to remove any rude or off-colour material
Canadian Sayings
Funny Retorts and Proverbial Jokes
Canadian Sayings Two
10 Sayings Every Canadian Should Know
Order this book online at www.chapter.indigo.ca
Canadian Sayings Not Yet Published in My Books
Alberta Folk Saying about Cattle Ranching
Canadian Saying about Stephen Harper
Canadian Sayings Fall 2007 A New Batch
Canadian Sayings - New - Jan 2008
Snow Sayings & Proverbs from Canada
Canadian Sayings Unpublished
Canadian Phrases Newly Collected March 2009
New Canadian Sayings Sept 2009
Double-Edged Pip: Folk Saying about Annoyance
Canadian Folk Sayings Newly Collected Nov 2009
Casselmania
Casselmania was the title of what was in fact Casselman's Canadian Words, Volume 2.
Greeting Terms like Ave atque Vale, Hello, Ciao, Chimo
Dictionary of Medical Derivations
Clickable sample list of some medical etymologies in the book
Mammogram and Mammoplasty
The Word Cancer & A Note on Medical Euphemism
Malaria, Collagen, Colloid, Protocol, and Caduceus
Hysteria: The Just Death of a Medical Word
Contact Bill Casselman by Email
Copyright Information
words and images on this website
English as a Second Language - - - features on this website
Canadian Sayings for ESL Students explained in plain English
Canadian Sayings for ESL Students - # 2 (#1 revised and expanded)
Features & Services Page
Halloween Items
Inuit Noise Ghost: A Canadian Halloween Monster
Gougou: Canadian Halloween Monster
Vintage Halloween Cards: A Small Gallery
Oak Words of the World - Part 1
Oak Words Part 2: Druid, Mistletoe & Oak Tree Myths
Oak Words Part 3: Oak Surnames & Oak Place Names
Wendigo: Cannibal Fiend of The North Woods
Bonhomme sept-heures - a Québec Bogeyman
Gougou - Canadian Monster Extraordinaire!
Holidays
Year of the Ox & Chinese Words in English
Irish Words in Newfoundland English
Shana Tova & Other Uses of the Hebrew Adjective tov ' good'
Origin of the Word "Easter" & Paschal Obscurities
HOME PAGE or INDEX PAGE
How To Submit Canadian Sayings
to Bill Casselman for Possible Publication
Humour, Newspaper Columns & Juvenilia
Letters to Canadian Word of the Day
Letters - posted November 2007
Letter Answered about Medved, Russian 'bear'
Letters about the Pays des Illinois American French Dialect - June 25 2008
Magazine Sample Column
Bill Casselman television column for Maclean's magazine:
New Columns of 2010
How Beaver Became a Dirty Word
New Pages
This page lists every column on the site with the date of its first posting and whether or not it was a repost. It begins with the latest columns addded most recently.
New Year's Pages
2005 - Brief Comment on one of William Blake's illustrations to The Book of Job
New Words or Neologies
Creepy New English Verb: To Tase
Panopticon of Verbal Rarities
#5 Cuckingstool, Rixatrix & Wittol
PHOTO ALBUM
Place Names of the World
Québec Sayings / Les Dits Québécois
French-Canadian Sayings- part one
French-Canadian Sayings - part two
Quebec Sayings & Current Expressions - part 4
Québec Sayings # 5 & Metathesis Explained
Québec Sayings # 6 L'Épluchette:Quebec Corn Roast/Husking Bee
Québec Sayings # 7 - Tuque Expressions & Other Quebecisms
Québec Sayings # 8 -Bread Words & Habitant
Quebec Sayings # 10 - Gorlot Phrases
Marde & Merde & Other Quebec Vulgarisms
Québec Insults & Sayings - Part 8 - not the same as Bread Words above
Le Mitin: A Québec Borrowing from English
British Reporter Can't Spell Québec Words
Québec Words & Phrases - Part 10
Dep & Guichet: Québec English Words & “Sticky Wicket”
Agace-Pissette et Gino & Other Quebec Terms
Questions & Answers
Recipe for Silly Chilli by Billy
SCHEDULE - - for radio, tv, speeches, appearances & bookstore signings byof Bill Casselman
Surnames of the World
Dmitri Medvedev: Origin of Russian Names
Mozart: The Surprising Meaning of his Surname revised and expanded June 2008
Unpublished Canadiana 2008-2009
Tories & Grits: Origins of Canadian Political Party Nicknames
Unpublished Pieces by Bill Casselman
Unpublished Canadian Sayings Collected Oct 2006
Anishinaabe: Origin of an Ethnonym
Canadian West Coast Expressions
Cephalic, The Vein with the Wrong Name
Alberta Horse Words & Your Coccyx
Unpublished Canadian Sayings posted June 20, 2007
Cow Words Part 2: Cow, Vache & Vacca
Cow Words Part 3: Vaccine & Pecuniary
Oak Words of the World - Part 1
Oak Words Part 2: Druid, Mistletoe & Oak Tree Myths
"Bordens & Brownies"- Canadian Racetrack Slang
Sousveillance: Coined by a Canadian
English Words from Chinese, Like Tea
Giclée: A Printing Term
Lariat, Lasso & Honda: Cowboy Words
Porcelain: A Marco Polo Word
Twat: Origin of a Rude Word
Cunt: A Blunt Etymology of the Word
Why I am NOT a Word Cop: 2008 Canada Day Essay
The Botched Names of Botanical Nomenclature
Olympic Games Named After Mount Olympus?
Barack Obama: The Meaning of His Given Name
Asbestos: Shame of Canada - updated report
Unpublished Columns - Part 2
Vor & Phag: Latin & Greek "Eat" Roots in English Vocabulary
Renoviction: Creepy New Canadian Word
Chaloshes, Tchotchke, Tchainik, Shpilkes:Four Yiddish Words
Boneyize: A West Coast Canadian Verb
Flux, Afflux, Efflux, Influx, Reflux,Effluxion
Superjuice: New Canadian Aboriginal Bootlegger Term
Kamik, Asham, Babiche, Bear Paw: Canadian Winter Boot WordsVexillology & Other Flag Words
Soap
Unpublished Columns
- Part 3
Coteau - Rolling Grasslands of Saskatchewan
Nuisance Grounds & Other Garbage Words
Galilee: Origin of a Hebrew Place Name & The God Pan
Canadianisms: A New Batch including kabloona and first sparrow fart
Kif: Arabic Dope Word Circles the Earth
Juju: an African Magic Word
Fig: Origin of the Word & of the Obscene Gesture
Unpublished Columns - Part 4
Celibacy: The Word & The Practice
Schiaparelli: Origin of an Elegant Italian Surname
Bastard & Other -Ard Words: Study of a Pejorative Suffix
Pip: A Canadian Saying about Annoyance
Obscure Verbs of Leaping: to Pronk, to Stott, to Saltate
Firn - Unusual Snow Term in English
Graupel & Chionablepsia: Rare Snow Words
Unpublished Columns Part 5 - in 2010
St. John's Wort, Spring & Galen
New -Shed Words like Walkshed & Viewshed
Gentian: Origin of a Flower Name
Frog: Origin of a Racist Insult
Oik: British Slang Worth Revival
Potty-Mouth: Etymology of a "Dirty" Synonym
Billet-Doux: Word Lore of a French Phrase
Tabula Rasa: Latin Phrase Worth Knowing
Chode / Chod: A Newish Dirty Word
Family First Meant ‘House Full of Slaves’
Lobate Scarp: Wordlore of Science Words
Valentine's Day
What's in a Canadian Name?
Intro to Canadian Names like Shania, Mike Bullard, and Neve Campbell.
Mozart: Surprising Origin of his Surname.
Winter Words
Winter Words & Rare Words & Year-End Email 2007
Quinzhee: A Canadian Winter Shelter Word
Wintergram Archives - Selected entries only
Wintergram Archives Index Page
The Man Who Drew Santa: Thomas Nast
Medieval Woodcut of Time with a Scythe
Japanese Woodblock of Snow Falling on a Temple
Thomas Nast: The Man Who Designed Santa Claus: Revised & Expanded column of December 2007
The Wording Room™
features some of my word lore
Easter is the Name of a Pagan Goddess
Is Ded Moroz, Russia's 'Grandfather Frost' cognate with English word dad?
Basketball Coach & Hungarian Cart
Clavier, Clef, Clavell, Enclave, Exclave
Funis, Latin 'rope' & Funiculi, Funicula!
Hello! Ciao! Words of Greeting
Frankum: Newfoundland Chewing Gum
Notes from The Wording Room - # 1
Locker-Boxing: Amateur Hockey Violence
Vole & Other Viking Words in English
Nappy: Origin of a Racist Insult
Farce: an Etymology (revised April 2007)
Mi'kmaq "Food" Place Names of Nova Scotia
Tuque -Canada's National Winter Headgear
Word News & Word Notes
How to Contribute to Recognized Tsunami Relief Funds with Lists & Links
Nicolas de Chamfort Controversy & his Biography
Merry Christmas in Many Languages
Words of the World
Nogoodnik: Russian Origin of an Anglo-Yiddish Term
Percebe: Spanish Word Entering English
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