A history of the English Language

American Dictionary
(Webster’s), 367 
American English, archaic features of, 360; 
conservatism of, 360; 
dialects of, 376; 
national consciousness of, 364; 
scientific interest in, 398; 
uniformity of, 356; 
vocabulary of, 362, 394ff. 
American Indian languages, 
see
Native American languages 
American Philological Association, 334 
American pronunciation, 371, 373 
American 
r,
373, 379–82, 388 
American Speech,
398 
American spelling, 369 
American Spelling Book, The
(Webster’s), 366–67, 371, 374 
American words in general English, 397 
Americanisms, 390ff. 
Amodio, Mark, 107 
Analogy, 3, 159, 281 
Analytic language, 56, 332–33 
Ancrene Riwle,
120, 122, 155 
Andeman, Gunilla M., 12 
Andreas,
71 
Andrew, S.O., 67 
Andrews, Charles M., 406 
Angles, 47–48 
Anglian, 96 
Anglo-French, 140, 174 
Anglo-Frisian, 33 
Anglo-Norman, 174, 
scribes, 237 
Anglo-Saxon, use of term, 50–51; 
civilization, 50 
Index 407

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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,
47, 49, 72, 74, 93, 167 
Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy, 50 
Angogo, Rachel, 325 
Angoulême, Isabel of, 128 
Anjou, 116; 
Charles of, 131 
Anselm, 120 
Anshen, Frank, 350 
Anttila, Raimo, 16 
Appalachian dialect, 378 
Aquitaine, Eleanor of, 119, 122 
Arabic, 8 
Arcadian-Cyprian, 27 
Archaic features in American English, 360 
Archer, William, 393, 397 
Aristotle, 205 
Armenian branch, 25 
ARPANET, 9 
Army and navy, words relating to, 171 
Arnold, Matthew, 315 
Art, words relating to, 172 
Arthur, King, 49, 119 
Arthur, Prince, 128 
Arthur and Merlin,
145 
Artificial languages, 7 
Aryan, 22 
Ascertainment, 257 
Ascham, Roger, 204, 206, 423 
Ash, John, 275, 277 
Assyrian, 25 
Athelstan, 94
Athelwold, 88 
Atkins,J.W.H., 251 
Atlantic creoles, 332 
Attic Greek, 27 
Atwood, E.Bagby, 376 
Aubrey, John, 250 
Augustan Age, 255 
Aureate terms, 185 
Australia, the English in, 290; 
English language in, 319; 
words from, 291 
Australian National Dictionary,
349 
Authority, deference to, 255–56 
Automobile, words relating to, 298, 396 
Avestan, 24–25 
Avicenna, 207 
Avis, Walter S., 331, 349 
Ayenbite of Inwit,
417 
Babylonian, 35 
Index 408

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Bacon, Francis, 261 
Bacon, Roger, 140 
Bailey, B.L., 383 
Bailey, Guy, 383, 407 
Bailey, Nathaniel, 232 
Bailey, Richard W., 17, 202, 318, 324, 325, 326, 348, 349, 359 
Baker, A.T., 141 
Baker, C.L., 408 
Baker, Robert, 241, 276 
Baker, S.J., 349 
Baldi, Philip, 41 
Ballads, 103 
Bally,C., 16 
Baltimore, Lord, 354 
Balto-Slavic branch, 30 
Baluchi, 25 
Bambas, Rudolph C., 252 
Bamgbose, Ayo, 324 
Bammesberger, Alfred, 41, 73 
Bangladesh, 5, 24, 
English language in, 325 
Barbados, English language in, 329 
Barber, Charles, 251 
Barlow, Frank, 126 
Barnard, Henry, 372 
Baron, Dennis E., 350, 406 
Barons’ War, 133 
Barry, Michael V., 318, 319, 348 
Bartholomew Anglicus, 180, 184 
Bartlett, John R., 392 
Barton, John, 152 
Baskin, Wade, 16 
Basque language, 45 
Bath, 120 
Battle of Brunanburh,
70 
Battle of Maldon,
70, 94 
Baugh, Albert C., 138 
Baugh, John, 383, 407 
Bavarian, 34 
Beauchamp, Richard, earl of Warwick, 147, 151 
Beauclerc (Henry I), 118 
Becket, Thomas, 114, 120 
Bede,47, 51, 62, 71, 
Behan, Brendan, 318 
Behistan, 23 
Behrens, Dietrich, 179, 197 
Belgium, bilingualism in, 115 
Belorussian, 25 
Bembo, Cardinal, 204 
Bender, Harold, 38, 42 
Benedict Biscop, 85 
Benedictine reform, 87, 89 
Index 409

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Benedictine rule, 88 
Bengali, 6, 24 
Bense, J.F., 188 
Benskin, Michael, 190, 198 
Bentley, Richard, 263 
Beneviste, Emile, 41