SUBJECT INDEX
| Ade, George, 51 | |
| Adverb forms, 83, 84 | |
| Adverbs, flat, 193 | |
| African metaphor, 220 | |
| Africa, words from, 147 | |
| Agricultural names, 304 | |
| Air service, slang of, 56, 57 | |
| Allen, E. A., 134 | |
| American creation of names, 27; influence on English, 35; food names, 324; language, 23; surnames, 391; variation from English, 33-35; words transmitted by Spanish, 148 | |
| Americanisms, 30, 31, 32, 33 | |
| America, words from, 147 | |
| Anglo-Indian dialect, 18 | |
| Anglo-Irish, 20 | |
| Anglomania, 35 | |
| Anglo-Saxon, 82, 83, 412 | |
| Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 279 | |
| Anglo-Saxon names disguised, 378; personal names, 377; place-names, 363-5 | |
| Antiquity represented in American place-names, 368 | |
| Antonomasia, 230 | |
| Arabic words, 144-6 | |
| Archaic survivals, 97 | |
| Archimedes, 178 | |
| Architectural terms, 71 | |
| Argot, 37 | |
| åschylus, 299 | |
| Asia, source of various foods, 324 | |
| Aspects of ideas, 199 | |
| Asquith, H., 68 | |
| Associated meanings, 244 ff., 260, 270, 402-4, 425, 429 | |
| Atlantic Monthly, 67 | |
| Auchinleck, Laird of, 14 | |
| Australian creation of names, 170; dialect, 18, 20; slang, 52 | |
| Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, 64, 218 | |
| Back-formations, 177 | |
| Back slang, 54 | |
| Bacon, 173 | |
| Baedeker, 13 | |
| Barnes, Wm., 20 | |
| Barrie, Sir Jas., 280, 282 | |
| Baseball slang, 46, 51 | |
| Battledore, 46 | |
| Bear, names for, 266 | |
| Beast-names, 297-300 | |
| Belgium, 6 | |
| Bender, H. H., 297 | |
| Beowulf, 2, 279 | |
| Berners, Lord, 396 | |
| Bible, 4, 117, 234, 415-7 | |
| Biblical words and phrases, 98; element in American placenames, 369 | |
| Bird names, 300 | |
| Black, Hugh, 68 | |
| Blackwood's Magazine, 66 | |
| Blends, 165, 166 | |
| Blood, circulation of, 336 | |
| Bloomfield, L., 219 | |
| Bobolink, variant names of, 17 | |
| Body, slang names for parts of, 60 | |
| Borrowing of place-names in America, 368-9 | |
| Boston, 157 |
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Publication information:
Book title: English Words and Their Background.
Contributors: George H. McKnight - Author.
Publisher: D. Appleton.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 1923.
Page number: 441.
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