01068nam a22001577a 4500 140603b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780199112210 PE1580.A98 Ayto, John. Oxford school dictionary of word origins: the curious twists and turns of the cool and weird words we use. / John Ayto. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009. xiv, 494 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Contents: Introduction: School dictionary of word origins (A-L): Word origins by type and topic: New words -- Invented words -- Eponyms -- Onomatopoeia -- Supernatural creatures -- Food -- Pasta -- Back-formation -- Acronyms -- Loan translation -- Blends -- Conversion -- Initialisms -- Shortened words -- Elements -- Dinosaurs -- First names -- Folk etymology -- Space -- Fashion and clothing -- Science and technology -- Days of the week -- Months of the year -- Numbers -- Nations -- Languages -- Prefixes -- Suffixes -- School dictionary of word origins (M-Z). Dictionary. lcc BK 2936 10436 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 REF 2014-06-03 0 PE1580.A98 6547/12 2014-06-03 00:00:00 1 2014-06-03 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 REF 2014-06-03 0 PE1580.A981 6548/12 2014-06-03 00:00:00 2 2014-06-03 BK