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                           PHRASES AND NAMES
                           THEIR ORIGINS AND
                                MEANINGS

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                           PHRASES AND NAMES
                           THEIR ORIGINS AND
                                MEANINGS

                                   BY
                           TRENCH H. JOHNSON

          “_How did such and such a country, city, town,
          street, river, natural curiosity, or world-renowned
          edifice obtain its name? Whence arose a particular
          sobriquet, nickname, byword, epithet, or slang term?
          What was the origin of the thousand-and-one phrases
          and expressions engrafted upon our vocabulary which
          would appear to have no meaning whatever? These
          things are worthy of investigation._”

                              PHILADELPHIA
                        J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
                                 LONDON
                            T. WERNER LAURIE




                                PREFACE


_Few words are necessary to introduce this work to the reader. It
partakes of the nature of an encyclopædia, with the saving clause that
the information it sets forth is confined to a plain statement of facts.
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