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- A BOOK ABOUT WORDS.
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- 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.
- FOOTNOTES:
- Works by the same Author.
- GENERAL LIST OF WORKS
- INDEX.
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