How to Pronounce Ernest Weekley
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Apr 27, 1865 Died on 07 May 1954 (aged 89)
British philologist
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About Ernest Weekley
- Ernest Weekley (27 April 1865 – 7 May 1954) was a British philologist, best known as the author of a number of works on etymology.
- His An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (1921) (850 pages) has been cited as a source by most authors of similar books over the 90 years since it was published.
- From 1898 to 1938, he was Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Nottingham. He married Frieda von Richthofen in 1899.
- Together they had three children: Charles Montague (born 1900), Elsa Agnès (born 1902) and Barbara Joy (born 1904).
- Weekley divorced Frieda in 1913 following her elopement with D.
- H.
- Lawrence.
