Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site voder.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!amd!dual!qantel!intelca!hplabs!nsc!voder!gino From: gino@voder.UUCP (Gino Bloch) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: ``bozo'' -- an etymology Message-ID: <438@voder.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 15:46:28 EDT Article-I.D.: voder.438 Posted: Fri Oct 5 15:46:28 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Oct-84 21:54:00 EDT References: <315@amdahl.UUCP> <175@scc.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara Lines: 14 [mange-moi] > The American Heritage Dictionary is newer and has much greater > attention to etomology than Webster's. It has a dictionary > of Proto Indo-European in the back and when possible gives > the original Indo-European word that a word is a reflex of. > Don Steiny - Personetics @ (408) 425-0382 I understand from a review (in Verbatim) that the new edition of the American Heritage dictionary has *DROPPED* the Indo-European dictionary. Sigh. BTW, I prefer the spelling `etymology'. -- Gene E. Bloch (...!nsc!voder!gino)