HELP SUPPORT THIS SITE!

Running this Web site and its related activities costs me a substantial sum each year, which I don’t begrudge in the slightest. But it would be good to get some income to help defray costs, especially as they are rising as the site becomes ever more popular. I don’t propose ever to charge to visit the site, nor shall I ever put advertising on it, nor do I intend to charge for the e-magazine. However, there are three ways you can contribute, if you would like to.

Make a donation

You can make a donation to World Wide Words by credit card through the PayPal system. If you do not already have a PayPal account, you will be asked to give details (over a secure connection) so your payment can be debited. Click the logo below to make a donation. PayPal accepts a variety of payment methods.

Electronic transfers are always especially welcome — for more information, please contact me. As a further possibility, you may be able to contribute by sending a cheque or cash through the post. Again, contact me for more information.

Buy books online

Another way you can help is to buy items from online bookshops. If you use one of the links below, World Wide Words gets a small commission on each item you buy, at no extra cost to you.

Buy my books

My most recent book, Why is Q Always Followed by U?, features about 200 updated, enlarged and rewritten answers to the more popular questions visitors to this site have asked in the past decade. Before that came Gallimaufry, which is about words that are vanishing from the language. An earlier one, with the title Port Out, Starboard Home (in the USA Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds) debunks legends told and retold about the origins of puzzling words and phrases; it was for a while in the UK bestseller charts and continues to sell well.

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