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Word Origins... and How We Know Them
Anatoly Liberman · 2005 · 316 pages
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Telling the origins of hundreds of words, this funny, charming, and conversational book takes the reader by the hand and explains the many ways that English words can be made, and the many ways in which etymologists try to unearth the origins of words.
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