Anatoly Liberman. An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction.(Book review)

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Anatoly Liberman. An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 2008. Pp. 359. $50.00.

The title of this volume does not quite describe what it implies in that only a handful of etymologies are dealt with. (It is in fact subtitled An Introduction.) Liberman thoroughly considers what can only be termed difficult or unsolved etymologies of fifty-five words that are common in standard speech, refer to certain plants, or are slang (and be includes the word "slang" itself). The introduction explains that his selection is taken ...

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