Friday, September 07, 2007

Books on Greek and Latin roots of English words

Stanton Biddle passed along a request from George Hill in the Dept. of Fine and Performing Arts that we be prepared for students asking for books that featuring Greek and Latin roots of English words. Aside from traditional dictionaries, which would offer origins of specific words, we don't have any of the kind of "vocabulary builder" books that might feature lists of common Greek and Latin roots. Until we can acquire some books like this, I'd like to share this list of books I made in WorldCat.org. Please note that many of the books on this list can be found at local public libraries as well as other CUNY libraries. (FYI: If you create an account at WorldCat.org, you can create your own list of books and share them publicly or keep them private.)

Next week, I'll try to find some web sites that might also meet this info need.

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