- Stories That Words Tell Us
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A history of English words, written for younger readers.Parental advisory: the text was published in 1918 and includes some ethnicity terms which may cause offense to the modern reader.
- Chapters
- I. Some Stories of British History told from English Words
- II. How we got our Christian Names and Surnames
- III. Stories in the Names of Places
- IV. New Names for New Places
- V. Stories in Old London Names
- VI. Words made by Great Writers
- VII. Words the Bible has given us
- VIII. Words from the Names of People
- IX. Words from the Names of Animals
- X. Words from the Names of Places
- XI. Pictures in Words
- XII. Words from National Character
- XIII. Words made by War
- XIV. Proverbs
- XV. Slang
- XVI. Words which have changed their Meaning
- XVII. Different Words with the Same Meaning, and the Same Words with Different Meanings
- XVIII. Nice Words for Nasty Things
- XIX. The Moral of these Stories