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This etymological tour de force was written by an autodidact who became a world-famous linguist and editor of the "Oxford English Dictionary," Deeply educational yet not overwhelming, this compact culmination of a philological life uses nontechnical terms to explain links between English and other tongues -- Greek, Latin, German, Spanish, and French.Bradley, Henry is the author of 'Making of English ', published 2006 under ISBN 9780486451442 and ISBN 0486451445.
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