An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, Vol. 1 and other notables of music

and other notables of music history

together with a number of its applications

changed history

Reprint of the fourth 1976 edition

An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, Vol. 1 and other notables of musicThe compiler of this dictionary of word and phrase origins and history was not only a linguist and a philologist but also a man of culture and wit. When he turned his attention, therefore, to the creation of an etymological dictionary for both specialists and non specialists, the result was easily the finest such work ever prepared. Weekley's Dictionary is a work of thorough scholarship. It contains one of the largest lists of words and phrases to be