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From: gino@voder.UUCP (Gino Bloch)
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Subject: Re: ``bozo'' -- an etymology
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Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 15:46:28 EDT
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[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)