Editor's note: This article is a reprint from "Stories That Words Tell Us" By Elizabeth O'Neill. It was published in 1918, but still gives a good insight on how and why slang is made. Also, compare which slang words it talks to are still in use today...
Editor's note: This article is a reprint from "Stories That Words Tell Us" By Elizabeth O'Neill. It was published in 1918, but still gives a good insight on how and why proverbs are created and used.
Every child knows what a proverb is, though every...
Editor's note: This article is a reprint from "Stories That Words Tell Us" By Elizabeth O'Neill. It was originally published in 1918.
There is one group of metaphorical words which is specially interesting for the stories of the past which they tell...
Editor's note: This article is a reprint from "Stories That Words Tell Us" By Elizabeth O'Neill. It was originally published in 1918.
White covered mountains of Albania
The stories which the names of places can tell us are many more in number, and...
Editor's note: This article is a reprint from "Stories That Words Tell Us" By Elizabeth O'Neill. It was originally published in 1918.
It is easy to see how names of persons have sometimes changed into general words. But we have also a great number...
Editor's note: This article is a reprint from "Stories That Words Tell Us" By Elizabeth O'Neill. It was originally published in 1918.
As we have seen, languages while they are living are always growing and changing. We have seen how new names have...
Revisited - Words Which Have Changed Their Meaning
Editor's note: This article is a reprint from "Stories That Words Tell Us" By Elizabeth O'Neill. It was originally published in 1918.
We have seen in the chapter on "slang" how people are continually using old words in new ways, and how, through this,...