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Table of Contents

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INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER I. ORIGIN OF WORDS—FAMILIES OF WORDS.

Families of Words (Saxon) .

CHAPTER II. LATIN AND FRENCH WORDS.

Latin Roots.

CHAPTER III. OLD AND NEW WORDS.

New French Words.

CHAPTER IV. DEGENERACY OF WORDS.

Contradictory Meanings.

CHAPTER V. PLAY UPON WORDS.

CHAPTER VI. CONCRETE AND ABSTRACT WORDS.

CHAPTER VII. GRAND WORDS.

CHAPTER VIII. THE SPELLING OF WORDS.

CHAPTER IX. FLEXIBILITY, VARIETY, ETC. OF WORDS.

Expansion.

Assimilation.

Attraction.

Accent.

Inversion.

Corruption.

CHAPTER X. DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE SAME IDEA.

CHAPTER XI. COMPOUND WORDS.

CHAPTER XII. THE PRONUNCIATION OF WORDS.

CHAPTER XIII. SLANG WORDS AND AMERICANISMS.

Slang Words.

Americanisms.

CHAPTER XIV. GENERAL REMARKS ON WORDS, ETC.

CHAPTER XV. GENERAL REMARKS ON WORDS, ETC. — continued.

CHAPTER XVI. MISCELLANEOUS DERIVATIONS OF WORDS.

Works by the same Author.

GENERAL LIST OF WORKS

INDEX.

A Book About Words

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