Word origins and their romantic stories /
Life stories of words, how, when and where they originated, and how their meaning changed and developed through the centuries.
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New York :
Bell Pub. Co. : Distributed by Crown,
1978, ©1950.
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Table of Contents:
- The story begins
- Origin of words of speaking and writing
- These words came from proper names
- Where words about human beings come from
- Word stories of the boudoir and the men's dressing room
- Sources of words of attitudes and emotions
- Romance behind business terms
- Word histories of your house
- Word histories of your garden
- Word stories about your dining table
- Where animal names come from
- Political terms and their origins
- War words and their histories
- Terms of science and the professions
- Romantic stories of words about women
- Terms of religion and their beginnings
- Origin of the terms of art, music, and the drama
- Your favorite sports and their word histories
- Terms of place, time, shape, and size, and their origins
- A basketful of word stories
- Word oddities
- The making of 50,000 words.