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By Ernest Weekley, M.A.
Professor of French and Head of the Modern Language Department
at University College, Nottingham.
AN ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF MODERN ENGLISH
Crown 4to. Pounds 2 2s. net.
This is somewhat of a new departure in etymological dictionaries. It embraces a much larger vocabulary than has been handled by previous etymologists and pays special attention to the colloquialisms and neologisms which, to the curious mind, are often of more interest than the established literary language. The origin and cognates of each word are given as concisely as possible, but "etymology" has been taken in its widest sense as a science dealing not only with the phonetic elements of which words are composed, but also with the adventures which they have met with during their life in the language and the strange paths that many of them have followed in reaching a current sense or use often widely remote from the original. So far as possible, the date or epoch of the first appearance of each word is noted, and the book will be found to contain much curious information for which earlier etymological dictionaries would be ransacked in vain.