Words of a Feather: A Humorous Puzzlement of Etymological Pairs

by Murray Suid (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2006

  $3.51

  Whether you're a wordsmith or just love language, you'll enjoy this amusing history of unlikely word pairings. What's the connection between maneuver and manure? Between glamour and grammar? Anger and angina? At first glance, these words seem to have nothing in common, but in fact they are Words of a Feather . This cleverly entertaining book probes the shared histories of 150 word pairs (called dual etymologies ) to give you a fun and powerful vocabulary-building education that will help you dazzle your friends with knowledge about word origins. Some words of a feather are: Angina, from the ancient Greek word ankhone, a strangling, & Anger, also from an ancient Greek word, ankhein, to squeeze - a close relative of the word ankhone Scissors, from the Latin cadere, to cut, & Decide, also from Latin, decadere, to cut off , and, Execute & Sequel, both derived from the Latin word sequ, to follow .