%0 Journal Article %T Oddments: A miscellany of English etymologies (part 2) %A Sayers, William %J Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis %V 2019 %R 10.4467/20834624SL.19.008.10603 %N Volume 136, Issue 2 %P 83-97 %K English etymology, popular speech %@ 1897-1059 %D 2019 %U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-linguistica-uic/artykul/oddments-a-miscellany-of-english-etymologies-part-2 %X This multi-part study continues an inquiry earlier initiated in these pages into words listed in Oxford English dictionary as still without satisfactory etymologies. Loans from a variety of source languages are reviewed, accompanied by commentary on earlier lexicographical praxis as it relates to various popular registers of English.