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A BOOK
ABOUT
WORDS.
BY
G. F. GRAHAM,
AUTHOR OF ‘ENGLISH, OR THE ART OF COMPOSITION,’
‘ENGLISH SYNONYMES,’ ‘ENGLISH STYLE,’
‘ENGLISH GRAMMAR PRACTICE,’
ETC.
LONDON:
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
1869.
PREFACE.
The increased attention lately paid to ourLanguage as a subject of Education, has inducedthe Author to state in the following pages hisviews on English (and other) Words. Theseviews are the result of a long professionalcareer in tuition, together with the study whichsuch a calling naturally involves.
Notwithstanding the rapid strides made oflate years in the science of Words, much stillremains unknown to the general reader; butif the following remarks be accepted as a smallcontribution to a more extended knowledge ofthis interesting subject, the Author will beamply compensated for any trouble it mayhave cost him to collect them.
Kensington:
May, 1869.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| Introduction | ix |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| Origin of Words (Saxon)—Families of Words | 1 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Latin and French Words | 23 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| Old and New Words | 38 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| Degeneracy of Words | 63 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| Play upon Words | 79 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| Concrete and Abstract Words | 96 |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| Grand Words | 101 |
| [viii] CHAPTER VIII. | |
| The Spelling of Words | 107 |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
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