Parts of Speech - Essays on English
by Brander Matthews
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About this eBook
- Author
- Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929
- Title
- Parts of Speech: Essays on English
- Original Publication
- United States: Charles Scribner's Sons,1901.
- Credits
- Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PE: Language and Literatures: English
- Subject
- Spelling reform
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 67503
- Release Date
- February 26, 2022
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.PARTS OF SPEECH ESSAYS ON ENGLISH
- 2.Untitled
- 3.Untitled
- 4.Untitled
- 5.Untitled
- 6.PREFATORY NOTE
- 7.CONTENTS
- 8.I THE STOCK THAT SPEAKS THE LANGUAGE
- 9.II THE FUTURE OF THE LANGUAGE
- 10.III THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN THE UNITED STATES
- 11.IV THE LANGUAGE IN GREAT BRITAIN
- 12.V AMERICANISMS ONCE MORE
- 13.VI NEW WORDS AND OLD
- 14.VII THE NATURALIZATION OF FOREIGN WORDS
- 15.VIII THE FUNCTION OF SLANG
- 16.IX QUESTIONS OF USAGE
- 17.X AN INQUIRY AS TO RIME
- 18.XI ON THE POETRY OF PLACE-NAMES
- 19.XII AS TO “AMERICAN SPELLING”
- 20.XIII THE SIMPLIFICATION OF ENGLISH SPELLING
- 21.XIV AMERICANISM—AN ATTEMPT AT A DEFINITION — Transcriber’s Notes
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