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To: one_less who wrote (20878)	12/16/1998 9:23:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

I think you mean an etymological dictionary, Abdul Haq. The one I personally have is The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. The multi-volume OED (Oxford English Dictionary) also has lengthy etymologies (as of course it would). There is nothing particularly complex about the history of "ilk", incidentally. Its original meaning is "the same". And as my etymological dictionary points out, it survives only in phrases like "of that ilk". On threads like this one, such phrases are used so often, uniformly in a negative sense, that the very word "ilk" has acquired a pejorative connotation. I was amused to see it employed against pezz (who seems to be everybody's favorite), so, in jest, I defended him against the "charge" of being an "ilk". :-) jbe