Devious Derivations: Popular Misconceptions, and More Than 1,000 True Origins of Common Words and Phrases by Hugh Rawson

Devious Derivations: Popular Misconceptions, and More Than 1,000 True Origins of Common Words and Phrases

Hugh Rawson

245 pages • first pub 1993 (view editions)

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In this new book, word maven Hugh Rawson brings you a marvelously entertaining roundup of 1,000 spurious etymologies, then enlightens you with their genuine counterparts. Some wiseacre (which, by the way, has nothing to do with land measure) may h...

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