Comments on Etymology, Volume 52, Issue 2

Authors

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English

Content

1. BOOK REVIEW: Take My Word For It: A Dictionary Of English Idioms. by Anatoly Liberman. Reviewed by Gerald Cohen ........................... ...................... 2

2. PASCAL TREGUER: Throw someone under the bus: meaning and origin. (expanded from earlier version of Treguer' s Word Histories blog post) .................................................. 10

3. KA TIE LAND ECK (Providence Journal reporter): Why do Rhode Islanders say bubbler when most people don't? Here's what we found out. ----- [G. Cohen: origin and distribution of U.S. dialectal bubbler 'drinking fountain/ water fountain'] ........................ 28

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Recommended Citation

(2023) "Comments on Etymology, Volume 52, Issue 2," Comments on Etymology: Vol. 52: Iss. 2, Article 1.
Available at: https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/coe/vol52/iss2/1