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Henry Bradley
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ISBN: 0486451445
Page Count: 176
Dimensions: 5 3/8 x 8 1/2
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.

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