Devious Derivations

Dave Wilton, Friday, January 05, 2007

Rawson, H. (1994). Devious derivations: popular misconceptions, and more than 1,000 true origins of common words and phrases. New York, Crown Publishers.

An excellent, readable book of word histories. Relies heavily on the OED as a source. For a popular press book, it has excellent reference citations.

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