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Revisited - Slang
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...
January / February 2013
Revisited - Proverbs
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...
March / April 2013
Revisited - Words From National Character
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...
May / June 2013
Revisited - Stories In The Names Of Places
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...
July / August 2013
Revisited - Words From The Names Of Animals
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...
November / December 2013
Revisited - Words Made By Great Writers
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...
January / February 2014
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,...
March / April 2014
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