The English-to-American Dictionary
The English-to-American Dictionary
Somebody with some time on their1 hands and access to the online OED could probably have some fun sorting out the folk etymology from the real here, since the authors usual reference is “somebody wrote in and told me this.”
hat-tip: Oxblog
- I’m trying to be less prescriptivist about this. If it was good enough for Jane Austen, and all…but I still feel a little guilty writing it. Hence this footnote. ↩
Tuesday, May 24th, 2005