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Words : English roots and how they grow.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Knopf, 1954.Edition: 3d ed., revDescription: 115 p. ill. 20 cmSubject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Words.DDC classification:
  • 422
LOC classification:
  • PE 1576 D7 1954
Also issued online.
Contents:
Do you know? -- A magic key to spelling -- Fun with the dictionary -- Alphabetical order -- Accent -- Personal history of a word -- Fair of all nations -- Outline of English and how it changed -- The Britons -- Caesar travels -- The Angles, Saxons, and Jutes -- The Norman conquest -- How Latin and Greek came into English -- Modern English -- Roots -- Making roots grow -- More root-digging -- Prefixes and suffixes -- Suffixes -- Pretending that you're an inventor -- Words derived from people's names -- Words from place-names -- Slang -- Synonyms, antonyms, homonyms -- First names -- Surnames -- How places got their names -- The days, the months, the seasons -- More materials for word-study -- How language began -- How writing began -- Life-history of A B C -- Materials of writing -- Language families -- More word-games.
Summary: This is the story of an experiment commenced nearly twenty years ago at the City and Country School, at the inspired hunch of its principal.
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Do you know? -- A magic key to spelling -- Fun with the dictionary -- Alphabetical order -- Accent -- Personal history of a word -- Fair of all nations -- Outline of English and how it changed -- The Britons -- Caesar travels -- The Angles, Saxons, and Jutes -- The Norman conquest -- How Latin and Greek came into English -- Modern English -- Roots -- Making roots grow -- More root-digging -- Prefixes and suffixes -- Suffixes -- Pretending that you're an inventor -- Words derived from people's names -- Words from place-names -- Slang -- Synonyms, antonyms, homonyms -- First names -- Surnames -- How places got their names -- The days, the months, the seasons -- More materials for word-study -- How language began -- How writing began -- Life-history of A B C -- Materials of writing -- Language families -- More word-games.

This is the story of an experiment commenced nearly twenty years ago at the City and Country School, at the inspired hunch of its principal.

Elementary school.

Junior high school.

Also issued online.

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