The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable looks interesting:

Take for example, the origins of the word ``business.'' In Old English, the word ``bisignis'' meant an anxiety. Over the years it grew to mean a task over which one was anxious, and now means an appointed task or commercial undertaking.

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