word history

On the assumption that anyone interested in writing might also be interested in the origins of  words, here are some websites where you can look up where a word came from:

http://www.takeourword.com/

http://www.word-detective.com/

The latter has an interesting description of the origin of "boilerplate," that dense writing that lawyers can cut and paste into a document so easily and legal writing professors eschew.  Click on:  http://www.word-detective.com/111097.html. (spl)