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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
Editor of numerous Early Eng. and Anglo-Saxon works, and author of an Etymological Dict. of the Eng.
From A Brief Handbook of English Authors by Adams, Oscar Fay
Bailey was the author or editor of several scholarly works; but, for us, his great work was his Universal Etymological English Dictionary, published in 1721.
From The evolution of English lexicography by Murray, James Augustus Henry
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