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Etymonline, or Online Etymology Dictionary, sometimes abbreviated as OED (not to be confused with the Oxford English Dictionary, which the site often cites), is a free online dictionary that describes the origins of English words, written and compiled by Douglas R. Harper.
Cracker: In the United States, the use of "cracker" as a pejorative term for a white person does not come from the use of bullwhips by whites against slaves in the Atlantic slave trade.
Douglas A. Harper (born 1948) is an American sociologist and photographer. [1] He is the holder of the Rev. Joseph A. Lauritis, C.S.Sp. Endowed Chair in Teaching with Technology at Duquesne University , a chair funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation .
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– Online Etymology Dictionary of English compiled by Douglas Harper – Ancient Greek Etymological Dictionary by H. Frisk – An Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon by Alwin Kloekhorst – Indo-European Etymological Dictionary by S. A. Starostin et al.
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Academia recognises beyond all reasonable doubt "fewer than ten" Brittonic loan-words in English that are neither historic nor obsolete. [2] The following list derives mainly from surveys of possible Brittonic loanwords in English by Richard Coates, Dieter Kastovsky, and D. Gary Miller.