Etymology Archives

Etymology

Foredone and Dusted

From Useless Etymology, which will be published in October by John Murray Press. Starting in the fourteenth century, “meseems” was used sort of like the word “methinks,” but instead of…

Yes

by Brian Doyle,

By a logic that eludes us

by Franklin Burroughs,

Notes of a word-watcher

by Lewis Thomas,

Espyonage

by Willard R. Espy,

What's in a name?

Words

by Jonathan Price,

Wraparound

by Harper’s Staff,

The real Arabs

by Keith Williams,

Dictionaries

by Felicia Lamport,

Our language right or wrong

The psychology of tripe

by Philip Everett Curtiss,

On the hostility to certain words

by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury,