About

The Strange Roots is a free resource and reference for linguists, programmers and anyone else with an interest in the origin of words used in technology and computer science. Every post contains links to the source of the etymological information where possible.

About me #

I'm James Scott, a London-based technical writer with an interest in etymology. You can finding me Tweeting about tech etymology from @thestrangeroots.

This site is built using the Eleventy static site generator and hosted on Netifly.