Category Archives: word origins
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Enticements of Etymology, Origins of Scoundrels, and Casey Gets a Hit
Leave a commentApril 6, 2015 by libroshombre
Ralph Waldo Emerson described studiers of word origins this way: “The etymologist finds the deadest words to have been once …
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The Etymology of Soccer, Football, and Ageless Slang
Leave a commentJuly 10, 2014 by libroshombre
The old Scottish poet Allan Cunningham once wrote about a time “when looks were fond and words were few.” That …
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