A Book about Words
by G. F. Graham
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About this eBook
- Author
- Graham, G. F. (George Frederick)
- Title
- A Book About Words
- Credits
- Produced by Richard Hulse, John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PE: Language and Literatures: English
- Subject
- English language -- Etymology
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 55200
- Release Date
- July 25, 2017
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.A BOOK ABOUT WORD S. — PREFACE. — CONTENTS. — INTRODUCTION.
- 2.CHAPTER I. ORIGIN OF WORDS—FAMILIES OF WORDS. — Families of Words (Saxon).
- 3.CHAPTER II. LATIN AND FRENCH WORDS. — Latin Roots.
- 4.CHAPTER III. OLD AND NEW WORDS. — New French Words.
- 5.CHAPTER IV. DEGENERACY OF WORDS. — Contradictory Meanings.
- 6.CHAPTER V. PLAY UPON WORDS.
- 7.CHAPTER VI. CONCRETE AND ABSTRACT WORDS.
- 8.CHAPTER VII. GRAND WORDS.
- 9.CHAPTER VIII. THE SPELLING OF WORDS.
- 10.CHAPTER IX. FLEXIBILITY, VARIETY, ETC. OF WORDS. — Expansion. — Assimilation. — Attraction. — Accent. — Inversion. — Corruption.
- 11.CHAPTER X. DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE SAME IDEA.
- 12.CHAPTER XI. COMPOUND WORDS.
- 13.CHAPTER XII. THE PRONUNCIATION OF WORDS.
- 14.CHAPTER XIII. SLANG WORDS AND AMERICANISMS. — Slang Words. — Americanisms.
- 15.CHAPTER XIV. GENERAL REMARKS ON WORDS, ETC.
- 16.CHAPTER XV. GENERAL REMARKS ON WORDS, ETC. — continued.
- 17.CHAPTER XVI. MISCELLANEOUS DERIVATIONS OF WORDS. — FOOTNOTES:
- 18.Works by the same Author.
- 19.GENERAL LIST OF WORKS
- 20.INDEX.
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