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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Wilton, David
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| Publisher: |
Oxford University Press
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| Date: |
12/02/2004
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| Binding: |
Hardcover
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| Condition: |
NEW
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David Wilton debunks the most persistently wrong word histories, and gives, to the best of our actual knowledge, the real stories behind these perennially mis-etymologized words. In addition, he explains
why these wrong stories are created, disseminated, and persist, even after being corrected time and time again. What makes us cling to these stories, when the truth behind these words and phrases is available, for the most part, at any library or on the Internet?
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