Online Etymology Dictionary
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php
This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.
(Someone, without meaning to, I'm sure, dropped me right back into the worst night of my life. I will see this over and over until it lets go. So…
They walk around me while I write, with a hey, ho, and a hey nonnie nah, They spin around me while I write, talking, laughing in my sight, watch my…
O brave new world, O brave new year full of potential unrealized, new, untried. May we, taking the first, tentative steps into your…