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A Note on the Etymology Section of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick
Melville invites us to turn the tables on him by starting with Etymology. We are miles from Call me Ishmael here. So, turn the tables. An usher is an assistant teacher, a job he once had. But the etymology of usher comes from Old French and Latin for a doorman. He’s got a doorkeeper at Continue reading
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