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Each entry includes the date of first recorded use and a brief discussion of the term's origin and evolution. Prefixes are treated in boxed "Wordbuilding" features. A distinct gesture of friendliness on Chantrell's part is her decision to spell out words that would ordinarily be abbreviated in scholarly works and even in some nonscholarly dictionaries. T. F. Hoad's Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology (Oxford, 1993), perhaps the most accessible of the scholarly choices, is prefaced by a list of almost 400 abbreviations, the use of which no doubt contributed substantially to its conciseness. In another nod to user-friendliness, many of the words abbreviated in Hoad--ablative, substantival, indeclinable, frequentative, and so on--are not to be found in Chantrell's word histories.
Still, within the zone of popular word histories, Chantrell sets herself against several formidable and well-established competitors, among them John Ciardi's Good Words to You: An All-New Dictionary and Native's Guide to the Unknown American Language (Harper, 1987), John Ayto's Dictionary of Word Origins (Arcade, 1993), and Adrian Room's A Dictionary of True Etymologies (Routledge, 1986). The Oxford Dictionary of Word Histories is recommended for libraries that need to freshen or expand their collection of word history resources. RBB
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