An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, Vol. 2

An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, Vol. 2The compiler of this dictionary of word and phrase origins and history was not only a linguist and a philologist but also a man of culture and wit. When he turned his attention, therefore, to the creation of an etymological dictionary for both specialists and non specialists, the result was easily the finest such work ever prepared. Weekley's Dictionary is a work of thorough scholarship. It contains one of the largest lists of words and phrases to be

anti-semitism

battlefield lingo

This complete

A final chapter discusses some of the consequences of nuclear fission

superstition

"new math" took the country's classrooms by storm

The final work of the great Belgian historian Henri Pirenne

books on mental exercises

books on magic squares

distribution aspects of probability

the art of pitching

through his last years in Ulm and death in Regensburg