Etymologist

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• Monthly Gleanings: October 2009

  
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  By Anatoly Liberman The British journals of the Victorian era are an inexhaustible source of elegant phrases, which arouse in me sometimes envy and sometimes amused wonderment. Therefore, while remaining true to that style, I will say that I follow the comments sent to this blog “with appreciative interest, ...
  1 week ago

• The Oddest and Dumbest English Spellings, Part 15, With a Note on Words and Things

  
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  By Anatoly Liberman It has been established long since that to know the origin of a word, one must know the properties of the object the word designates. This idea, sometimes neglected today (to the detriment of those who neglect it), dominated medieval etymologizing. For example, since God was universally ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ladybugs Infest Homes Throughout The US

  
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  By Ranjan BhaduriOct. 21, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The United States Of America, is currently seeing ladybugs swarming the homes of people causing them to flood their blogs with the news. According to different sources the ladybugs are looking for shelter as winter is approaching. The same thing was noted by ‘The Today ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ethnic Slurs. Part III: Another Derogatory Name for the Jew: Kike

  
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  By Anatoly Liberman Of all the ethnic slurs invented for a Jew, Kike is the best-known (a dubious distinction) and the most widely used. Dictionaries prefer to say that its origin is unknown, which is right but uninspiring. By contrast, the Internet and books on ethnic conflict and on American English offer such ...
  3 weeks ago

• Watered Down Etymologies (Ocean and Sea)

  
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  By Anatoly Liberman Much to my embarrassment, I am using a title of the type I ridiculed not too long ago, but the temptation was too strong, and I yielded to it. The idea (of this post, not of the title) occurred to me when I was reading a book on the history and archeology of Ancient Greece. The ultimate source ...
  4 weeks ago

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