The Romance of Words
by Ernest Weekley
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About this eBook
- Author
- Weekley, Ernest, 1865-1954
- Title
- The Romance of Words (4th ed.)
- Credits
- Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PE: Language and Literatures: English
- Subject
- English language -- Semantics
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 23958
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23958
- Release Date
- December 21, 2007
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE ROMANCE OF WORDS
- 2.BY ERNEST WEEKLEY, M.A.
- 3.PREFACE — FOOTNOTES:
- 4.CONTENTS — THE ROMANCE OF WORDS
- 5.CHAPTER I — OUR VOCABULARY — FOOTNOTES:
- 6.CHAPTER II — WANDERINGS OF WORDS — FOOTNOTES:
- 7.CHAPTER III — WORDS OF POPULAR MANUFACTURE — FOOTNOTES:
- 8.CHAPTER IV — WORDS AND PLACES — FOOTNOTES:
- 9.CHAPTER V — PHONETIC ACCIDENTS — FOOTNOTES:
- 10.CHAPTER VI — WORDS AND MEANINGS — FOOTNOTES:
- 11.CHAPTER VII — SEMANTICS — FOOTNOTES:
- 12.CHAPTER VIII — METAPHOR — FOOTNOTES:
- 13.CHAPTER IX — FOLK-ETYMOLOGY — FOOTNOTES:
- 14.CHAPTER X — DOUBLETS — FOOTNOTES:
- 15.CHAPTER XI — HOMONYMS — FOOTNOTES:
- 16.CHAPTER XII — FAMILY NAMES — FOOTNOTES:
- 17.CHAPTER XIII — ETYMOLOGICAL FACT AND FICTION — FOOTNOTES:
- 18.INDEX
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