Thereby Hangs a Tale: Stories of Curious Word Origins (Harper colophon books)
Description
THEREBY HANGS A TALE- Stories of Curious Word Origins by Charles Earle Funk. PREFACE: THIS book is the outcome of a collection of material that has been slowly accumulating over the past thirty years or so, since the time when, under the guidance of the late Dr. Frank H. Vizetelly, I began to work as his associate in the editorial department of the Funk Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary. The ancestry of most of the words that we now use glibly or find in books or other cur rent literature, is prosaic. We can trace their lines of descent back to Old English, or Old French, or Latin, or Greek,...
ISBN(s)
006091260X, 9780060912604
