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	Online Etymology

Fast T friend

7-21-2008 8:41 AM

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Fast T friend says:

An easy to use online dictionary with some useful links

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7-22-2008 2:37 AM

carrerinyes

Cool site, thanks for sharing it!

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   This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions;
   they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.
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   The basic sources of this work are Weekley's "An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English,"
   Klein's "A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language," "Oxford English
   Dictionary" (second edition), "Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology," Holthauzen's "Etymologisches
   Wörterbuch der Englischen Sprache," Ayto's "20th Century Words," and Chapman's "Dictionary
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   Since this dictionary went up, it has benefited from the suggestions of dozens of people I
   have never met, from around the world. Tremendous thanks and appreciation to all of you.
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