Does anyone know of a good etymology site

whiskygalore | 10:24 Fri 16th Aug 2002 | Phrases & Sayings

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Failing that, any good basic resource books?

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Loads - try logophilia.com, also Michael Quinion's worldwidewords.org and www.geocities.com/etymonline. The Chambers Dictionary of Etymology is excellent and I believe Oxford publishes a similar one. The editor and lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower does a good Word of the day thing on the Web, with interesting searchable archives (can't remember the URL offhand, but easy to search for).

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Thanks for that :-) whenever I try searching for one on Google the amount of sites that come back is overwhelming!

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