Words : English roots and how they grow.
- 3d ed., rev.
- New York : Knopf, 1954.
- 115 p. ill. 20 cm.
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.