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'Yule' Love These New Books About Words

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Stuff your stockings this holiday season with these lively new books about language.

Jess Zafarris reveals the delightful backstories of hundreds of words in "Useless Etymology: Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds" (Chambers, $19.99). We learn that "sinister" once meant "left-handed" and that "factoid" originally denoted a falsehood ...Read more

 

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