Introduction                                       ix
    Hidden Lives of Everyday Words                 1  (10)
    Didn't You Just Make This Up?                  11 (8)
    Tasty Words                                    19 (12)
    People Who Became Words                        31 (12)
    There Is Even a Word for That                  43 (12)
    Fictional Characters Who Came Alive            55 (10)
    You Have Changed!                              65 (8)
    Dickensian Characters Who Became Words         73 (10)
    Words to Describe People: Insults              83 (8)
    Streets That Became Metaphors                  91 (6)
    How Do You Measure the Warmth of Clothes?      97 (12)
    Places That Became Words                       109(14)
    Lexicographer, There Is a Fly in My            123(8)
    Language!
    Words About Words and Languages                131(12)
    It's All a Myth                                143(14)
    Ultimately We Are All Related: The Story of    157(8)
    Indo-European
    These Sound Good---Let's Copy Them!            165(5)
Answers to Puzdes                                  170(7)
Acknowledgments                                    177(1)
Index of Terms                                     178