Ann E. Weiss (1943–)

Origins of many words in quite interesting, but I wasn't as thrilled with the structure as I was supposed to be: A quoted sentence includes a word that would have been used a long time ago, followed by some equivalent of "What's that you said?" followed by what we say nowadays. All that is on the left side of each two-page spread. The right side explains how the word evolved into the way we use it now.

For example: "Open your beech trees to page twenty-one" becomes "Open your books to page twenty-one." Then an explanation about bark being used for books, . . . .… (más)