Download or read book The Hutchinson Concise Dictionary of Word Origins written by Adrian Room and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains entymologies of thousands of English words, with information on language of origin, and including recently coined words such as disco and slang such as yob. It should be of use to anyone interested in the history of words and how language is used.

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