ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Writing a book like this obviously takes a tremendous amount of research, and many sources have played an integral part of bringing these pages to life. In particular, the Internet has a vast amount of information—some of it verifiable and correct, some of it misleading, and some of it specious at best, but always a good lead for what people believe about word origins. What is true is that we relied on Internet sources to start our research, and where possible, found other valid resources to back up any claims we found online. With that said, any factual errors you see in these pages are ours alone at this point.
The following sources proved invaluable in our research:
• The Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Called the “definitive ...
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