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Multer adds that these conflicting bits of evidence make the etymology of Ajo difficult to confirm.
It has always seemed to me that we view the answering of questions of fact (like what a word means or what is its etymology) as either “easy” or “difficult” depending on whether we know the answer or not.
The etymology of all these names remains as elusive as that of Rome itself.
The subject of our epistolary dialogue is the etymology of the word balagan , a buzzword in modern Hebrew.
Consider that the OED , which makes no pretensions at being exhaustive or complete, occupies some twenty quarto volumes in its description of the lexicon alone; consider that a descriptive bibliography of the huge number of lexicographical works on the myriad aspects of English alone would occupy several similar volumes; consider the multivolume works on English grammar--by Curme, Poutsma, Jespersen, et al.; consider the immense corpus of English literature and of the writings about it; and then consider all the material ancillary to the foregoing: the teaching of English not only to foreign learners but to native speakers as well, the conventions of writing, punctuation, usage, and pronunciation, the multifarious influences of English and on English around the world, the study of style and of literary devices, etymology, etc.