Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins, Vol. 1

By William Morris

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061112607
• ISBN13: 9780061112607
• Release Date: January 1962
• Publisher: Harper & Row
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

I used to sit my wife below the salt until she read this book.

The “Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins” is exactly what the name implies. It is more fun to read from A to Z. However, if you just use the book to look up references, you know about being fastidious in your search. As I was looking up “A stitch in time…” and eventually found it as “Stitch in time…” The book is fun (and useful) in the sense that not only do you get the usual “This is what it means,” which you could have probably guessed, but you get a history that is not found in many of the other reference books.