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