The Romance of Words (4th ed.)

CONTENTS

CHAP.		PAGE
I.	Our Vocabulary	1
II.	Wanderings of Words	17
III.	Words of Popular Manufacture	29
IV.	Words and Places	47
V.	Phonetic Accidents	54
VI.	Words and Meanings	72
VII.	Semantics	86
VIII.	Metaphor	105
IX.	Folk-Etymology	113
X.	Doublets	139
XI.	Homonyms	155
XII.	Family Names	169
XIII.	Etymological Fact and Fiction	184
	Index	205

The following dictionaries are quoted without further reference:—

Palsgrave, French and English (1530).
Cooper, Latin and English (1573).
Percyvall, Spanish and English (1591).
Florio, Italian and English (1598).
Cotgrave, French and English (1611).
Torriano, Italian and English (1659).
Hexham, Dutch and English (1660).
Ludwig, German and English (1716).

THE ROMANCE OF WORDS

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