Stories that Words tell us
by Elizabeth O'Neill
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About this eBook
- Author
- O'Neill, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman), 1877-
- Title
- Stories That Words Tell Us
- Credits
- Produced by Thierry Alberto, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PE: Language and Literatures: English
- Subject
- English language -- Etymology
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 19052
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19052
- Release Date
- August 15, 2006
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.STORIES THAT WORDS TELL US — BY
- 2.ELIZABETH O'NEILL, M.A. — AUTHOR OF "THE WORLD'S STORY," "A NURSERY HISTORY OF ENGLAND," ETC. — LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK, Ltd. — 35 PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C. AND EDINBURGH — 1918
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.STORIES THAT WORDS TELL US.
- 5.CHAPTER I. — SOME STORIES OF BRITISH HISTORY TOLD FROM ENGLISH WORDS.
- 6.CHAPTER II. — HOW WE GOT OUR CHRISTIAN NAMES AND SURNAMES.
- 7.CHAPTER III. — STORIES IN THE NAMES OF PLACES.
- 8.CHAPTER IV. — NEW NAMES FOR NEW PLACES.
- 9.CHAPTER V. — STORIES IN OLD LONDON NAMES.
- 10.CHAPTER VI. — WORDS MADE BY GREAT WRITERS.
- 11.CHAPTER VII. — WORDS THE BIBLE HAS GIVEN US.
- 12.CHAPTER VIII. — WORDS FROM THE NAMES OF PEOPLE.
- 13.CHAPTER IX. — WORDS FROM THE NAMES OF ANIMALS.
- 14.CHAPTER X. — WORDS FROM THE NAMES OF PLACES.
- 15.CHAPTER XI. — PICTURES IN WORDS.
- 16.CHAPTER XII. — WORDS FROM NATIONAL CHARACTER.
- 17.CHAPTER XIII. — WORDS MADE BY WAR.
- 18.CHAPTER XIV. — PROVERBS.
- 19.CHAPTER XV. — SLANG.
- 20.CHAPTER XVI. — WORDS WHICH HAVE CHANGED THEIR MEANING.
- 21.CHAPTER XVII. — DIFFERENT WORDS WITH THE SAME MEANING, AND THE SAME WORDS WITH DIFFERENT MEANINGS.
- 22.CHAPTER XVIII. — NICE WORDS FOR NASTY THINGS.
- 23.CHAPTER XIX. — THE MORAL OF THESE STORIES.
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