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The Henry Holt encyclopedia of word and phrase origins / Robert Hendrickson.
LIBRA Special PE1689 .H47 1990
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hendrickson, Robert, 1933-
- Standardized Title:
- Facts on File encyclopedia of word and phrase origins
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Etymology--Dictionaries.
- English language.
- English language--Etymology.
- English language--Terms and phrases.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered pages, 581 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- First Owl Book Edition.
- Other Title:
- Encyclopedia of word and phrase origins
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Henry Holt and Company, [1990]
- Notes:
- "Covering some 7500 words and phrases, in the space of about one million words, this book is, I believe, the longest collection of word and phrase origins in print."--Preface.
- Reprint. Originally published: The Facts on File encyclopedia of word and phrase origins. New York, N.Y. : Facts on File, c1987.
- "An Owl book."
- "Cover design copyright 1990 by David Weisman.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0805012516
- 9780805012514
- OCLC:
- 20421964
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