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The Etymologicon : a Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language

What is the actual connection between disgruntled and gruntled? What links church organs to organised crime, California to the Caliphate, or brackets to codpieces?

eBook, English, 2011
Icon Books, Cambridge, 2011