By ERNEST WEEKLEY, M.A. 7s. 6d. net.

This is an abridgment of the author's Etymological Dictionary of Modern English published in 1921. The process of abridgment has been carried out, not by omitting the less common words (for it is usually the uncommon word or the neologism that excites legitimate curiosity), but by making the explanations as brief as possible and by abstaining from the discussion of unsatisfying conjectures. It contains the whole of our literary and colloquial vocabulary, together with sufficient indications to show the origin of modern scientific terms. Account has been taken of what has been done in etymology in the last few years, and some of the statements in the larger book are corrected or modified. A number of new words of quite recent introduction are here for the first time "booked" and explained - copec, fascist, insulin, mah-jongh, rodeo, etc.

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