TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Voices and Gods
Three-Dimensional Words
Crossing Boundaries
Boundaries of Words
An Outline of English Word Formation
Wisdom Sits in Places
Patterns in Nature
Shallow Names
The Blossoming of Language
Bibliography
In a Nature Register
Capital Ideas
Any Nonce Sense?
Contraction
Introducing Neologisms
Pop Nature
Word Art
A(f)-fix-ing Words
Four Ways to Create Original Words
Old English: Back to the Roots
Denotation
Altered Orthography
Anglo-Norman
French Influence
The Mystery of Men-
Prayer and Blessing Formula
Genius Loci
Greek Influence
Latin Influence
Tips for Recognizing Greek and Latin Words
Medieval Latin
Ye Olde Wordes
Newfoundland English
New Be-Kennings
Fox Turns
Nature Rhetoric
Termes of the Jay
Overstepping Bounds
Place-Name Elements
British Place-Names
Texture
Rock
Copula Absence
Seeing Color
States of Mind
Wind
Clouds
Shallow Name Sonatina
Species and Ideas
Body Language
Personal Pronouns
Capital Piracy
Gender of Animacy
Taboo Names
The Many Faces of Synonyms
Form
Formulas
Parallels and Echoes
Catalogs
Ritual Words and Bilingual Text
Ring Composition
Ritual Chanting
Raven
Sounds
Pause and Effect
Spacing Out
Metathesis
Shifty Letters
Building with Syllables
Creating On an Offbeat
Productivity
New Word Formation
Becoming Animal
Local Language
Wisdom