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'Yule' Love These New Books About Words
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







