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Each chapter was seperate into shorter section, each section dealing with a word that fit the greater theme. In each section, the first few paragraphs would be example of the word, along with the etymology of the word.

Frequently this etymology felt incomplete. There were many instances where the author referred to a primitive Indo-European word as being an ancestors of the modern word, but in all the times she did that she never once shared the Indo-European word.

Other times the etymological study became a soap box of the authors ideas. That isn't to say I didn't agree with many of her stances, but frankly, her opinions were much too freely scattered throughout the book.

I probably wouldn't have finished this book if I hadn't been challenged to read something from the 400s section, and found interesting ones hard to come by.