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Old November 27th, 2008, 09:20 PM posted to rec.travel.europe,uk.politics.misc,rec.travel.usa-canada,rec.travel.australia+nz,rec.sport.rugby.union
Dirk Bruere at NeoPax
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Default A-Z of English words with surprising origins
Hatunen wrote:
On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:32:59 -0000, "Gerald Oliver Swift"
wrote:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main...bowords126.xml
When I set out to write a study of the history of words, I thought I
had a decent grasp......

• 'The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English' by Henry
Hitchings (John Murray Publishing, £16.99) is available from Telegraph
Bookshop for £14.99 + £1.25 p&p. To order, call 0844 871 1515 or go to
books.telegraph.co.uk


The author of this (sad) piece probably never even thought to look at these
two sites:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...foreign_origin
http://www.krysstal.com/borrow.html

Or to have posted it in alt.usage.english ...


http://etymonline.com/

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