THE ROMANCE OF WORDS

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Observer—"A book of extraordinary interest; every one interested in words should immediately obtain a copy, and those who do not yet realise how enthralling a subject word-history is, could not do better than sample its flavour in Mr. Weekley's admirable book."

SURNAMES

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The Times—"Mr. Weekley has so artfully sprinkled his pages with odd and impossible names that we simply cannot help reading him."

Works by Henry Cecil Wyld

Merton Professor of the English Language in the University of Oxford.

SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLISH

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