Holycrap328 t1_ja2qqh5 wrote on February 26, 2023 at 12:08 PM Reply to comment by Chucks_u_Farley in TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged Derived from "Entymology, which is, of course, the study of Ents. Permalink Parent 17
Holycrap328 t1_ja2qqh5 wrote
Reply to comment by Chucks_u_Farley in TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged
Derived from "Entymology, which is, of course, the study of Ents.