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The Romance of Words

by Ernest Weekley

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  1. 1Epigraph — Preface
  2. 2Chapter I — Our Vocabulary
  3. 3Chapter II — Wanderings of Words
  4. 4Chapter III — Words of Popular Manufacture
  5. 5Chapter IV — Words and Places
  6. 6Chapter V — Phonetic Accidents
  7. 7Chapter VI — Words and Meanings
  8. 8Chapter VII — Semantics
  9. 9Chapter VIII — Metaphor
  10. 10Chapter IX — Folk-Etymology
  11. 11Chapter X — Doublets
  12. 12Chapter XI — Homonyms
  13. 13Chapter XII — Family Names
  14. 14Chapter XIII — Etymological Fact and Fiction

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