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etymological

[et-uh-muh-lahj-ik-uhl] / ˌɛt ə məˈlɑdʒ ɪk əl /


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The Origins of ‘Big Data’ : An Etymological Detective Story Words and phrases are fundamental building blocks of language and culture, much as genes and cells are to the biology of life.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2013

A. Etymological debate is raging even as you read.

From Time Magazine Archive

The best reference book around was Nathan Bailey's Universal Etymological English Dictionary, but the Bailey brand of definition, e.g., a mouse: "an animal well known," was hardly adequate.

From Time Magazine Archive

For more than a century M�nage’s Etymological Dictionary held the field without a rival.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various

Cleverness of these blunders— Etymological guesses—English as she is Taught—Scriptural confusions— Musical blunders—History and geography— How to question—Professor Oliver Lodge's specimens of answers to examination papers .

From Literary Blunders by Wheatley, Henry Benjamin




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