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Hensleigh Wedgwood's English Etymology
August 15, 1872 issue

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The article presents information on the book "A Dictionary of English Etymology," by Hensleigh Wedgwood. It states that the book cannot be put in hands of a student as a trustworthy guide, but its unscientific appearance might easily lead a critic to overlook much of its real merit. Wedgwood confines himself for the most part to Anglo-Saxon words, which have not yet been made commonplace by etymologists. It would be hard to find in any other learned book of the year a worse tangle of blunders than the discussion of the word "bind," but considered as an essay on the origin of language, the book is valuable and will doubtless do something toward the settlement of the question.

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DICTIONARY of English Etymology, A (Book); WEDGWOOD, Hensleigh; ENCYCLOPEDIAS & dictionaries; ENGLISH language -- Etymology; WORD (Linguistics); LANGUAGE & languages -- Origin; ENGLISH language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100
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