Words; their use and abuse, by William Mathews, LL.D
by William Mathews
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About this eBook
- Author
- Mathews, William, 1818-1909
- Title
- Words; Their Use and Abuse
- Credits
- Produced by Turgut Dincer, 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 -- Usage
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 58100
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58100
- Release Date
- October 14, 2018
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.WORDS; THEIR USE AND ABUSE. — PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION. — CONTENTS.
- 2.CHAPTER I. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WORDS. — FOOTNOTES:
- 3.CHAPTER II. THE MORALITY IN WORDS. — FOOTNOTES:
- 4.CHAPTER III. GRAND WORDS.
- 5.CHAPTER IV. SMALL WORDS. — FOOTNOTES:
- 6.CHAPTER V. WORDS WITHOUT MEANING. — FOOTNOTES:
- 7.CHAPTER VI. SOME ABUSES OF WORDS. — FOOTNOTES:
- 8.CHAPTER VII. SAXON WORDS, OR ROMANIC? — FOOTNOTES:
- 9.CHAPTER VIII. THE SECRET OF APT WORDS. — FOOTNOTES:
- 10.CHAPTER IX. THE SECRET OF APT WORDS—( continued ). — FOOTNOTE:
- 11.CHAPTER X. ONOMATOPES. — FOOTNOTES:
- 12.CHAPTER XI. THE FALLACIES IN WORDS. — FOOTNOTES:
- 13.CHAPTER XII. THE FALLACIES IN WORDS—( continued ). — FOOTNOTES:
- 14.CHAPTER XIII. NAMES OF MEN. — FOOTNOTE:
- 15.CHAPTER XIV. NICKNAMES. — FOOTNOTES:
- 16.CHAPTER XV. CURIOSITIES OF LANGUAGE. — CHANGES IN THE MEANING OF WORDS. — DEGRADATION OF WORDS. — COMMON WORDS WITH CURIOUS DERIVATIONS. — WORDS OF ILLUSIVE ETYMOLOGY. — CONTRADICTORY MEANINGS. — FOOTNOTES:
- 17.CHAPTER XVI. COMMON IMPROPRIETIES OF SPEECH. — FOOTNOTE: — PRINCIPAL BOOKS CONSULTED.
- 18.INDEX.
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