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Project Gutenberg's Stories That Words Tell Us, by Elizabeth O'Neill This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Stories That Words Tell Us Author: Elizabeth O'Neill Release Date: August 15, 2006 [EBook #19052] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK STORIES THAT WORDS TELL US *** Produced by Thierry Alberto, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net STORIES THAT WORDS TELL US BY ELIZABETH O'NEILL, M.A. AUTHOR OF "THE WORLD'S STORY," "A NURSERY HISTORY OF ENGLAND," ETC. LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK, LTD. 35 PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C. AND EDINBURGH 1918 * * * * * CONTENTS I. SOME STORIES OF BRITISH HISTORY TOLD FROM ENGLISH WORDS II. HOW WE GOT OUR CHRISTIAN NAMES AND SURNAMES III. STORIES IN THE NAMES OF PLACES IV. NEW NAMES FOR NEW PLACES V. STORIES IN OLD LONDON NAMES VI. WORDS MADE BY GREAT WRITERS VII. WORDS THE BIBLE HAS GIVEN US VIII. WORDS FROM THE NAMES OF PEOPLE IX. WORDS FROM THE NAMES OF ANIMALS X. WORDS FROM THE NAMES OF PLACES XI. PICTURES IN WORDS XII. WORDS FROM NATIONAL CHARACTER XIII. WORDS MADE BY WAR XIV. PROVERBS XV. SLANG XVI. WORDS WHICH HAVE CHANGED THEIR MEANING XVII. DIFFERENT WORDS WITH THE SAME MEANING, AND THE SAME WORDS WITH DIFFERENT MEANINGS XVIII. NICE WORDS FOR NASTY THINGS XIX. THE MORAL OF THESE STORIES * * * * * STORIES THAT WORDS TELL US. CHAPTER I. SOME STORIES OF BRITISH HISTORY TOLD FROM ENGLISH WORDS. Nearly all children must remember times when a word they know quite well and use often has suddenly seemed very strange to them. Perhaps they began repeating the word half to themselves again and again, and wondered why they had n
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