Tools of Thinking: Understanding the World Through Experience and Reason

Glossary of Linguistics
a glossary that I collected over the years for my own use. Currently it consists of more than 700 terms. Additions, corrections and suggestions are welcome! Joost van de Weijer
It is sometimes suggested that the terminology, or ‘jargon’, of modern linguistics is unnecessarily complex. This is a criticism which need not detain us long. Every science has its own technical vocabulary: it is only because the layman takes on trust the established sciences, and especially the ‘natural’ sciences, that he does not question their right to furnish themselves with special vocabularies. The technical terms used by linguists arise in the course of their work and are easily understood by those who approach the subject sympathetically and without prejudice.

Norwegian Folk Tales
East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon Retold by Gudrun Thorne-Thomsen
Illustrated by Frederick Richardson
A collection of over twenty Norwegian folk tales and fairy tales. In preparing the stories for publication, the aim has been to preserve, as much as possible, in vocabulary and idiom, the original folklore language, and to retain the conversational style of the teller of tales, in order that the sympathetic young reader may, in greater or less degree, be translated into the atmosphere of the old-time story-hour.