How chickens led to calling billiards "pool," why Hitler would've been offended if you called him a "Nazi," an eighteenth-century recipe for the original "humble pie," how the "bogey man" of Victorian myth lent his name to a golf score, why both the centers of your eyes and young students are called "pupils"—and a whirlwind of other fascinating etymological stories fill this entertaining book, newly enhanced with clever vintage-style illustrations. A perfect gift for good-humored word-lovers, The Illustrated Etymologicon kept me constantly surprised and amused.