What's behind the word?
By: Illustrated by Susan Perl.
Contributors: Perl, Susan, 1922- illus.
Series: Our living language series
Publisher: Coward-McCann
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: English language -- Etymology -- Juvenile literature.; English language -- Etymology.
Description: The present-day definitions of thirty-nine common words, such as sandwich, guy, pretzel, and ketchup, are followed by the stories of their unusual origins.