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Tufte, too, likes his etymologies.
The dictionary section contains dates (where applicable), etymologies, and descriptive definitions.
Aboriginal etymologies are now mostly settled, the historical and geographical evidence of a word's early use being brought collectively to bear as in the case of kangaroo .
However, let it become cluttered with etymologies, essays, and vocabulary that, I think, belong in more encyclopedic tomes and published at less frequent intervals, and the result is a cumbersome volume that I, for one, would not be inclined to use as the handy reference a college dictionary implies.
Ornery is one of a clutch of bristly words with odd and often controversial etymologies.