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

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that explore the origin, evolution, and social history of over three thousand English language words.

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

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Explains the origins of thousands of words, proverbs, idioms, foreign language expressions, animal and plant names, and nicknames.