Sentences with word «etymologist»
Finer etymologists believe the terms derive from an 18th - century proverb: «To sell the bear's skin before one has caught the bear.»
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As far as the spelling of the dish is concerned, etymologists tell us that there is enormous confusion about the terms that describe the Capsicums (chile peppers) and the recipes prepared with them.
Still other etymologists lobby for an Arabic origin of the word, which may have arrived in Mexico via Moorish Spain.
The discovery of another symbiotic microbe in leaf - cutter ant fungal gardens is «very exciting,» says etymologist Ted Schultz of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. «When I first got into this stuff, we thought it was a... two - partner symbiosis.
Donald Pleasence's wheelchair - bound Scottish etymologist and a razor - wielding chimp also join her team.
The Internet offers many tools for young etymologists and an abundance of great ideas for teaching vocabulary and spelling.
Some say that's the source of the colloquialism, although many etymologists, abstainers or not, disagree.
- Anatoly Liberman, blogger The Oxford Etymologist and author of An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology; «Enlightening, engaging and essential.»
As best the etymologists can make it out, «obscenity» comes from the Latin ob and caenum, meaning «to filth.»
As the leaves fall in Pennsylvania, I recall Borges the etymologist alluding to the meaning of Bryn Mawr in Welsh: «So, you are teaching at Bryn Mawr.
Jaws portrayed sharks as villains, and some etymologists believe the word shark may derive from earlier German and Dutch words for shifty characters.
Some etymologists think the phrase refers to dead animals washed into the streets after a downpour.
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