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Tables of Contents for O Brave New Words
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
xi
Preface
xiii
Using This Book
xvii
Voyage into a New Awareness
3
11
Adventurers and Settlers
14
9
A Forest of Languages
23
9
``Wild Beasts and Wild Men''
32
12
First Words from the New World
44
9
Reports from the Frontier
53
14
Renaming a Continent
67
12
Opening Up the West
79
13
Of Kayaks and Igloos
92
10
Words along the Fiery War Trail
102
21
Indianisms in Current English
123
13
The Twentieth Century and Beyond
136
18
Epilogue
152
2
Glossary 1. English Loanwords from the North American Indian Languages (North of Mexico)
154
63
Glossary 2. English Loanwords from the Eskimo and Aleut Languages
217
4
Appendix. English Loanwords from the Latin American Indian Languages
221
27
Notes
248
9
Bibliography
257
18
Index
275