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American Word Origins

America in So Many Words: Words That Have Shaped America, by Allan Metcalf and David K. Barnhart, published by Houghton Mifflin Company
From apple pie to zero hour, canoe to jukebox, these are the words of American English, arranged chronologically starting with the settlement of Jamestown. The tidbits of information provided are thus of historical as well as linguistic interest.
On this page: caboose to cybernetics.
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Title Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y
C:  A

canning (food, industry, process)
canoe (vessel)
carpetbagger (organization)
catfish (fish)
catnip (plant)
cereal (food)
Chautauqua (word origin: 1873)
chowder (food)
Christmas tree (evergreen or artificial tree)
clapboard (material, construction)
cocktail (liquor)
commuter (word origin: 1865)
corn (plant, vegetable)
cowboy (history, United States)
cranberry (plant, fruit)
credit card (in finance)
cybernetics (in science, electronics)