Stories That Words Tell Us

Elizabeth O'Neill
Language: English
Genres: Non-fictionReferenceChildren's Non-fictionWriting & Linguistics
Narrators:Wayne Cooke, Garfield Dsouza, Kudrna, Ethan Voth, Colleen McMahon, Connie Bettison, Ezekiel, Louise J. Belle, Chad Jackson, Bhavesh Aggarwal, BettyB, Kinjal, KevinS, Ruth P.
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1/19I. Some Stories of British History told from English Words

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  • 1. I. Some Stories of British History told from English Words
  • 2. II. How we got our Christian Names and Surnames
  • 3. III. Stories in the Names of Places
  • 4. IV. New Names for New Places
  • 5. V. Stories in Old London Names
  • 6. VI. Words made by Great Writers
  • 7. VII. Words the Bible has given us
  • 8. VIII. Words from the Names of People
  • 9. IX. Words from the Names of Animals
  • 10. X. Words from the Names of Places
  • 11. XI. Pictures in Words
  • 12. XII. Words from National Character
  • 13. XIII. Words made by War
  • 14. XIV. Proverbs
  • 15. XV. Slang
  • 16. XVI. Words which have changed their Meaning
  • 17. XVII. Different Words with the Same Meaning, and the Same Words with Different Meanings
  • 18. XVIII. Nice Words for Nasty Things
  • 19. XIX. The Moral of these Stories

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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. - Summary by Kazbek

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