Dictionary of Word Origins: Histories of More Than 8,000 English-Language Words

Dictionary of Word Origins: Histories of More Than 8,000 English-Language Words
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Containing more than eight thousand entries, this guide to the history of the English language traces word origins from their Indo-European roots and reveals the links between seemingly unrelated words such as "bacteria" and "imbecile"
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