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For those words of doubtful origin (like dive `disreputable bar,' jingo, rag `taunt,' toy , etc.), Ayto presents the current wisdom, where available, and lets the user decide for himself from among the theories proffered.
Still, none of the new-words dictionaries I checked, including the Longman Register of New Words (edited by John Ayto; Longman, 1989) and the Facts on File Dictionary of New Words (edited by LeMay, Lerner and Taylor; Facts on File, 1988) had an entry for pixelization `the appearance of pixels (dots that make up a computer-screen image) in a computer graphic, a mark of lower resolution.
, and fails to explain what is metaphorical about She is ailing . Third--though here we might not be dealing with Ayto's decision as much as the publisher's--it is simply not convenient to have a dictionary of etymology that excludes all bound prefixes and suffixes, though these are glossed, as required, when they are part of an entry.
In contrast to these standard works, John Ayto has compiled a very commendable, user-friendly book which is eminently readable (as is all of Ayto's writing).
John Ayto, editor of the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Word Origins , reviewed elsewhere in this issue, will not be happy to see his name misspelled “Ayton.”