@article{559c50fd-12dd-4dd6-bc11-860ed2b62197, author = {William Sayers}, title = {Oddments: A Miscellany of English Etymologies (Part 3)}, journal = {Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis}, volume = {2019}, number = {Volume 136, Issue 3}, year = {2019}, issn = {1897-1059}, pages = {181-198},keywords = {English etymology; popular speech}, abstract = {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. This article concludes a study initiated under the same title in volume 136, issue 1 (2019) of this journal. The present group of words to be examined is drawn from the vocabulary for the harvesting of natural resources}, doi = {10.4467/20834624SL.19.015.11060}, url = {https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-linguistica-uic/artykul/oddments-a-miscellany-of-english-etymologies-part-3} }