TODAY John McIntyre takes a long whack at an ill-thought-through catalogue of usage shibboleths, to which I commend the reader. The first example he gives could use a little more illustration here.

The first complete, reliable and easy to use etymological dictionary of the Polish language since the times of Aleksander Brueckner. Wieslaw Borys's **dz:Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego ...

THE aim of this dictionary is primarily etymological, and no attempt at exhaustive definitions has been made. Apart from its literary interest, however, its utility is, as the authors suggest, ...

CHENNAI: Even Tamil teachers in the state might be taken aback if we told them that the origins of the English word ‘free’ could be traced to Tamil. While etymology links it to the Sanskrit root ‘pri’ ...