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Stories That Words Tell Us

Stories That Words Tell Us

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Number of Chapters: 19

Length: 06 hours and 03 minutes

Language: English

A history of English words, written for younger readers.

Parental advisory: the text was published in 1918 and includes some ethnicity terms which may cause offense to the modern reader. - Summary by Kazbek

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I. Some Stories of British History told from English Words (Wayne Cooke)
II. How we got our Christian Names and Surnames (Garfield Dsouza)
III. Stories in the Names of Places (Kudrna)
IV. New Names for New Places (Ethan Voth)
V. Stories in Old London Names (Colleen McMahon)
VI. Words made by Great Writers (Connie Bettison)
VII. Words the Bible has given us (Ezekiel)
VIII. Words from the Names of People (Connie Bettison)
IX. Words from the Names of Animals (Louise J. Belle)
X. Words from the Names of Places (Chad Jackson)
XI. Pictures in Words (Bhavesh Aggarwal)
XII. Words from National Character (Wayne Cooke)
XIII. Words made by War (BettyB)
XIV. Proverbs (Kinjal)
XV. Slang (KevinS)
XVI. Words which have changed their Meaning (Ruth P.)
XVII. Different Words with the Same Meaning, and the Same Words with Different Meanings (Ezekiel)
XVIII. Nice Words for Nasty Things (Louise J. Belle)
XIX. The Moral of these Stories (Garfield Dsouza)
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