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Stories That Words Tell Us

Stories That Words Tell Us

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    English
  • Provider: Librivox
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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

Chapters

  • 01
    I. Some Stories of British History told from English Words
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  • 02
    II. How we got our Christian Names and Surnames
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  • 03
    III. Stories in the Names of Places
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  • 04
    IV. New Names for New Places
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  • 05
    V. Stories in Old London Names
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  • 06
    VI. Words made by Great Writers
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  • 07
    VII. Words the Bible has given us
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  • 08
    VIII. Words from the Names of People
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  • 09
    IX. Words from the Names of Animals
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  • 10
    X. Words from the Names of Places
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  • 11
    XI. Pictures in Words
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  • 12
    XII. Words from National Character
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  • 13
    XIII. Words made by War
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  • 14
    XIV. Proverbs
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  • 15
    XV. Slang
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  • 16
    XVI. Words which have changed their Meaning
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  • 17
    XVII. Different Words with the Same Meaning, and the Same Words with Different Meanings
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  • 18
    XVIII. Nice Words for Nasty Things
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  • 19
    XIX. The Moral of these Stories
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