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Why is it, as etymologist Walter Skeat asked frequently in the last century, that people will not hesitate to proffer publicly their guess-work on word origins and other language matters, when they would not similarly dare to explain the ordinary facts of botany and chemistry?
Only an etymologist today would be expected to know of the kite/hawk kinship , and only he is able to see a kite in a spring sky and appreciate it as the hawk it once was.
The F Word , the work of the scholar etymologist who is a resident editor in the dictionary department at Random House, proves to be a rare item indeed: a comprehensive, vastly eclectic, tongue-in-cheek serious treatment that has to be the first and last word on this world-class Word.
Fitzedward Hall (1825-1901) traced his career as an etymologist to a shipwreck.