A history of the English Language

Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles,
398 
Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles,
398 
Dictionary of American Regional English,
398 
Dictionary of Canadianisms,
331, 349 
Dictionary of Jamaican English,
349 
Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles,
349 
Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue,
317 
Diensberg, Bernhard, 197 
Dieth, Eugen, 317, 348 
different from,
279 
Digby, Sir Kenelm, 264 
Dillard, J.L., 408 
Dillon, Myles, 34 
Diodorus Siculus, 215 
Discovery of gold in California, 355 
Dismukes, W.P., 41 
Dobson, E.J., 214, 236, 252 
Dobson, R.B., 154 
Dolgopolsky, Aron, 23 
Döll,Helene, 197 
Donoghue, Daniel, 68 
Dorchester Society, 356 
Doric, 27 
Double negative, 279 
Douglas, Gawin, 156 
Douglas, David C, 126 
Drant, Thomas, 206, 230 
Drayton, Michael, 264 
Dryden, John, 164, 220, 235, 244, 257, 262, 265–66, 268, 280, 287 
Dual number, 59, 162 
Du Bellay, J., 204, 220, 251 
Duke of Newcastle, 254 
Dunbar, George, earl of March, 151 
Dunbar, William, 156, 185–86 
Dunstan, 88 
Durham, bishop of, 146; 
Symeon of, 96 
Dutch, 33; 
settlers in America, 188, 353; 
words from, 12, 188, 291, 363 
Eadgyth, 119 
Early English Text Society, 341 
Earthworm, words for, 389 
Index 416

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East Africa, English language in, 325 
East Anglia, 50, 93, 99, 353 
East Franconian, 34 
East Germanic, 32 
East Midland dialect, 189, 411–14 
East Slavic, 31 
Eastern New England dialect, 379 
Ebbitt, Wilma R., 395 
Eble, Connie, 348 
Ecclesiastical words, 86, 169 
Edda, 33 
Edington, 93 
Edmund, King, 93 
Education, influence of, 201 
Edward the Confessor, 109–10 
Edward the Elder, 94 
Edward I, 133, 137 
Edward II, 148 
Edward III, 141, 148 
Edward IV, 116 
Egbert, King, 50 
Efik, influence of, 329 
Einenkel, E., 104 
either and neither,
360 
Ekwall, E., 75, 76, 96, 106, 188, 198, 236, 241, 252, 373 
Elamite, 25 
Electricity, words relating to, 298 
Elene,
71 
Eliason, Norman E., 406 
Ellis, A.J., 137, 236, 334
Elyot, Sir Thomas, 204, 205, 206, 207, 214, 216, 217, 221, 223, 225, 229, 230, 249 
Emerson, O.F., 17, 148, 266, 398 
English, characteristics of, 10–15; 
cosmopolitan vocabulary of, 11; 
future of, 5; 
origin of name, 50; 
as a world language, 7; 
importance of, 3; 
in the Empire, 319ff.; 
in Africa, 321ff.; 
in Australia, 319; 
in Canada, 331; 
in the Caribbean, 328; 
in New Zealand, 319; 
in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, 327; 
in South Asia, 325; 
in the law courts, 149; 
in the schools, 146; 
influences at work on, 2; 
knowledge of among the upper class, 121; 
periods of, 52; 
proclamation of Henry III, 137; 
Index 417

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size of, 4, 6; 
use in writing, 153; 
world-wide, 319, 403 
Enrichment, problem of, 209 
Epicetus, 205 
Erasmus, 206, 218 
Erie Canal, 355 
Esperanto, 7 
Essex, 50, 387 
Ethandun, 93 
Ethiopia, English language in, 325 
Etruscan, 28 
Euro-English, 405 
European Union, 9 
Evans, Bergen, 17, 395 
Evelyn, John, 265 
Eversdone, Hugh of, 146 
Evesham, 120 
Ewe, influence of, 329 
Exeter College, Oxford, 139 
Exodus, 71 
Expansion of the British Empire, 288 
Faltenbacher, Hans, 197 
Farrell, R.T., 106 
Farrer,W., 116 
Fashion, words relating to, 171 
Fasold, Ralph W., 383, 407, 408