(Part 2) Top products from r/etymology
We found 14 product mentions on r/etymology. We ranked the 33 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
21. The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, Third Edition
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Number of reviews: 1
Houghton Mifflin
22. Number Words and Number Symbols: A Cultural History of Numbers
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Number of reviews: 1
23. Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra
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Number of reviews: 1
25. The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
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Number of reviews: 1
Berkley Trade
26. The American Language Supplement 1 :The American Language: An Inquiry Into the Development of English in the United States
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Number of reviews: 1
27. The Mother Tongue - English And How It Got That Way
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Number of reviews: 1
Harper Perennial
29. A Thinker's Guide to the Philosophy of Religion
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Number of reviews: 1
paperbackreligionphilosophy
31. Metaphors We Live By
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Number of reviews: 1
University of Chicago Press
The OED online is free in most parts of the English-speaking world with a library card, and with its advanced search capabilities and historical thesaurus linked from every definition it is a far more powerful reference tool than the printed version. That said, you can still purchase all 20 volumes for USD $1100, or the one-volume compact edition (with magnifying glass) for USD $420.
If you are dead set on paper and not interested in words that stopped being used before Shakespeare, the 2-volume Shorter Oxford English Dictionary is excellent and will meet your needs. You can get the 1993 printing (don't go any earlier) for very cheap. Ask beforehand to be sure the bookseller is selling you both volumes!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/019861134X/ref=tmm_hrd_used_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=used
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For a bit more, you can get the fifth edition (the sixth edition is current):
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B00EKYRFGE
[Edited to clarify who OED online is free for.]
Amazon Link because everyone deserves to read it at least once.
It's very short, around a hundred pages, and only $6 USD with free Prime shipping.
It's a truly powerful book from an actual Holocaust survivor.
It features in Wikipedia's list of ethnic slurs and the reference leads to this as 'dark gable'.
edit: Here is the Fresh Prince saying it. It looks like a play on Clark Gable.
Yes, these were the result of a language game that was common a few centuries ago.
http://www.amazon.com/Exaltation-Larks-Ultimate-James-Lipton/dp/0140170960?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0
/u/Thelonious_Cube nailed it. You might be interested in George Lakoff's book Metaphors We Live By.
Great question. Closest I have is the American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, but it's not as useful as what you're describing for that purpose.
If you want a serious treatment of religion, check out A Thinkers Guide to the Philosophy of Religion: http://amzn.com/0321243757
Co-written by an atheist and theist philosopher.
Etymologicon
https://www.amazon.com/Etymologicon-Circular-Through-Connections-Language/dp/0425260798
For more concerning al-Khwarizmi and the development of modern algebra, check out Unknown Quantity by John Derbyshire.
Here you go.
Shingle as a thin piece of wood derives from 1200, scincles, from Latin scindula. The meaning you are referring to is shingle as a small signboard or nameplate fixed outside the office of a doctor, lawyer and appears in American English in 1842. As u/TechnologyEvangelist states, the story goes that a shake (wooden) shingle was used to make the sign. The source for the date and reference is The American Language Supplement by H.L. Menken - 1945
"Instability" and "unstable" have the same root, the Latin adjective "stabilis" (from the verb "stare," to stay). Like /u/probably-yeah said, the prefixes "in" and "un" came to English from different sources: "in" is French/Latin and "un" is Germanic.
English spelling really didn't standardize until the advent of the printing press, and then the choices were made by book publishers and were often arbitrary. 'Correct' English spelling was developed piecemeal, and various attempts to streamline it over the centuries have failed. Source: Bill Bryson, The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way.
So is Yiddish with Dick and Jane.
"See Jane schlep. Schlep Jane schlep!"