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Word Origins ... and How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone
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Word Origins ... and How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone Hardcover - 2005

by Liberman, Anatoly

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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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  • Title Word Origins ... and How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone
  • Author Liberman, Anatoly
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher OXFORD UNIV PR, NY
  • Date 2005-03-24
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ING9780195161472
  • ISBN 9780195161472 / 0195161475
  • Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.8 x 1.1 in (21.59 x 14.73 x 2.79 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects English language - Etymology
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004023057
  • Dewey Decimal Code 422

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  • American Reference Bks Annual, 01/01/2006, Page 449
  • Ingram Advance, 02/01/2005, Page 78
  • Library Journal, 05/01/2005, Page 84
  • Rec Ref Bks for Small/Med Libr, 01/01/2006, Page 214

About the author

Anatoly Liberman is Professor of the Humanities at the University of Minnesota. For the past seventeen years, he has been working on a new etymological dictionary of English. He lives in Minneapolis.

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