202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1986 this dictionary gives the true etymologies, as far as they are known, of many English words that have frequently come to be associated with quite another, false origin. Among such words are those that have long been wrongly attributed in the language such as acorn, belfry, carnation, mosaic and saltcellar which are nothing to do with corn, bell, coronation, Moses or... Read more
Introduction. Language List. Dictionary.
Biography
Adrian Room (1933–2011)
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