1. Thereby Hangs A Tale Stories Of Curious Word Origins
by Charles Earle Funk 
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2. Thereby Hangs a Tale Stories of Curious Word Origins
by Charles Earle Funk 
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3. Thereby Hangs a Tale - Stories of Curious Word Origins
by Charles Earle Funk 
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Description: ISBN10: 1406773190, ISBN13: 9781406773194, [publisher: Mysore. Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - THIS book is the outcome of a collection of material that has been slowly accumulating over the past thirty years or so, since the time when, under the guidance of the late Dr. Frank H. Vizetelly, I began to work as his associate in the editorial department of the Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary. The ancestry of most of the words that we now use glibly or find in books or other current literature, is prosaic. We can trace their lines of descent back to Old English, or Old French, or Latin, or Greek, or other ancient source, but beyond the bare bones supplied by etymologists, which indicate those sources, and the steps by which they became English words, the dictionaries tell us little-for there is little more that can be told. The ancient Roman or Greek, say, who may have been the first to use a word that has strayed on to us, perhaps could have told the story of its origin. It may have been picturesque, based upon some historic episode, like the word anecdote; it may have come from a tale in some older language, for the languages that we consider ancient were themselves based upon still more ancient sources, but that story, if any, cannot now be determined. Thus what we know about the origins of the great majority of the words in our present language can be found in an unabridged dictionary or in a work dealing with etymologies, such as that compiled by W. W. Skeat about seventy years ago, or the one more recently prepared by Ernest Weekley. [Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2007]  

4. Thereby Hangs a Tale - Stories of Curious Word Origins
by Funk Litt.D., Charles Earle 
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by Funk, Charles Earle 
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by Funk, Charles Earle 
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7. Thereby Hangs a Tale - Stories of Curious Word Origins
by Funk, Charles Earle 
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by Funk, Charles Earle 
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9. Thereby Hangs a Tale-Stories of Curious Word Origins
by Funk Litt.D., Charles Earle 
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10. Thereby Hangs a Tale: Stories of Curious Word Origins
by Funk Charles Earle 
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11. Thereby Hangs a Tale: Stories of Curious Word Origins
by Funk, Charles Earle 
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by Funk, Charles Earle 
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