The Morrises, well-known lexicographers, published a dictionary of the same title in 1977, a revision of a three-volume work published between 1962 and 1971. Th
This extensive reference volume presents the etymological history of thousands of English words. The story of how words come to be is the story of how humans th
Arranged in alphabetical order for handy reference, this book contains more than 3,000 everyday words and expressions. It tells where these comes from, and what
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