Stories That Words Tell Us

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The Minerva Group, Inc., 2001 - 240 pàgines

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Some Stories of British History Told ffrom English Words
7
How We Got our Christian Names and Surname
21
Stories in the Names of Places
39
New Names for New Places
51
Stories in Old London Names
70
Words Made by Great Writers
84
Words the Bible has Given Us
96
Words from the Names of People
103
Pictures in Words
138
Words from National Character
152
Words Made from War
163
Proverbs
172
Slang
179
Words which have Changed their Meaning
192
Different Words with the Same Meaning and the Same Words with Different Meanings
213
Nice Words for Nasty Things
224

Words from the Names of Animals
118
Words from the Names of Places
127
The Moral of these Stories
230
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