print email comment close The Word Detective URL: http://www.word-detective.com/ Description: Online edition of the newspaper column of same name, written by Evan Morris, "answering readers' questions about words and language." Contains an archive of past columns, browsable by word or phrase. Author: Morris, Evan Library of Congress Subject Headings: English language -- Terms and phrases Etymology LII Database Information: Record 10767 created by Carole Leita on 10/15/1999 Last modification on 08/16/2005 Published: 10/15/1999   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/10767