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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1

Ⅰ．The Origin of Language 1

Ⅱ．Language is Poetry 7

Ⅲ．Learned Words and Popular Words 19

Ⅳ．Learned Words become Popular 29

Ⅴ．Technical or Class Dialects 42

Ⅵ．Slang and Legitimate Speech 55

Ⅶ．The Literary Language 80

Ⅷ．The Latin in English 93

Ⅸ．Fashion in Language 110

Ⅹ．Complexity of the English Vocabulary 128

Ⅺ．Unity of the English Vocabulary 147

Ⅻ．Cognates and Borrowed Words 159

ⅩⅢ．The Development of Words.Ⅰ.Roots,Stems,In-flection 169

ⅩⅣ．The Development of Words.Ⅱ.Derivation and Composition…………………………………………18？ⅩⅤ．Fossils 193

ⅩⅥ．The Conventional Character of Language 219

ⅩⅦ．Generalization and Specialization of Meaning 234

ⅩⅧ．Special Processes in the Development of Meaning:Radiation,etc 259

ⅩⅨ．Transference of Meaning 272

？ 284

ⅩⅩ．Degeneration of Meaning 284

ⅩⅪ．Euphemism 300

ⅩⅫ．Hyperbole or Exaggeration 309

ⅩⅩⅢ．Folk-Etymology 339

ⅩⅩⅣ．Doublets and Homonyms 345

ⅩⅩⅤ．Words from the Names of Animals 361

ⅩⅩⅥ．Words from Places or Persons 372

APPENDIX 391

INDEX OF MATTERS 397

INDEX OF WORDS 411

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