Word histories and mysteries :  from abracadabra to Zeus / 
from the editors of the American Heritage dictionaries. 
 - Boston :  Houghton Mifflin Co.,  c2004. 
 - xvi, 348 p. :  ill. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/> The articles, averaging half a page, though based on current scholarship, are themselves casual reading. The selection is so small that readers looking for a specific word are more likely to find some other word with a story that will interest and often delight them instead. Pronunciations are not indicated, either for the main listing or for the g 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0618454500 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English language--Etymology--Dictionaries.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PE1580  / .W665 2004