A history of the English Language

Participle, present, 190 
Partridge, Eric, 347, 348 
Pashto, 25 
Pastoral Care,
71 
Paul, Hermann, 16, 41 
Paullin, Charles O., 387 
Pauwels, Luc, 198 
Payne, Joseph, 197, 334 
Peasants’ Revolt, 143, 188 
Peckham, Archbishop, 140
Pedersen, H., 16, 42 
Pederson, Lee A., 400 
Peitz, Agnes, 199 
Pellisson, 264 
Pencriche, Richard, 151 
Penfield, Joyce, 385 
Penn, William, 242, 353 
Pennsylvania, 353, 354, 358, 388 
Pennsylvania Dutch, 104, 354, 389 
Pennsylvania Journal, 364 
Periods of English language, 52 
Pershore, 120 
Persian, 25; 
words from, 12, 303 
Peru, words from, 291 
Peter Martyr, 206 
Peterborough, 113, 122 
Index 434

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Peterborough Chronicle,
166 
Peterhouse College, Cambridge, 140 
Peters, Robert A., 232 
Pettie, George, 207, 221 
Pettman, Charles, 322, 349 
Philadelphia, 353, 389 
Philip, king of France, 128 
Philip de Mercros, 121 
Philippe de Thaun, 118 
Philippines, 6 
Phillips, Edward, 214, 217, 232, 310, 427 
Philological Society, 334, 341ff. 
Phoenicians, 26 
Phoenix,
71 
Phoneme, definition of, 401 
Phonetic symbols, xvi 
Phonology, 235
−
40 
Phrygian, 26 
Phrygians, 26, 36 
Physics, words relating to, 298 
Picard dialect, 28, 140 
Pickering, John, 391, 394 
Picts and Scots, 48 
Pidgin English, 331ff., 383 
Pidgin languages, 125, 331, 383 
Piers Plowman,
146, 156 
Piggott, Stuart, 72 
Pike, K.L., 402 
Pindar, Peter, 310 
Pisan, Christine de, 135 
Pitman, Isaac, 334 
Place-names, 75, 98 
Plato, 205 
Platt, John, 17, 328, 349 
Plattdeutsche, 33 
Pléiade, The, 204 
Plummer, C., 106 
Plural, methods of indicating, 159–60; 
in -
en,
160; 
in -
s,
159–60 
Plutarch, 205 
Plymouth, 364
Pogatscher, Alois, 106 
Poitevins in England, 130, 132 
Poitiers, battle of, 141 
Pokorny, J., 41, 106 
Polish, 31 
Pollard, Carl, 403 
Polomé, Edgar C., 42 
Poole, Austin L., 126 
Pop, Sever, 399 
Pope, Alexander, 19, 262, 273, 360 
Index 435

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Pope, M.K., 198 
Portmanteau words, 306 
Portuguese, 4, 7, 29; 
words from, 291; 
influence, 228 
Porzig, Walter, 42 
Postage, cheap, 296 
Potter, Simeon, 17 
Pound, Louise, 306 
Powell, F.York, 114 
Powicke, F.M., 129, 156 
Prakrit, 24 
Prator, C.H., 323 
Praz, Mario, 252 
Prefixes, 66, 181, 304 
Prein, Wilhelm, 252 
Prescriptive grammar, beginnings of, 278ff. 
Preston, Dennis R., 407 
Price, H.T., 167, 252 
Pride, John B., 17, 349 
Priestley, Joseph, 258, 270, 274, 278–80, 283–85 
Prins, A.A., 167 
Printing, influence of, 200 
Prioress, Chaucer’s, 141, 156 
Progressive passive, 291 
Progressive verb forms, 245, 291 
Prokosch, E., 41 
Pronoun, 59, 161, 242; 
agreement in gender, 339; 
relative, 244
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45 
Pronunciation, American, 371, 373; 
Shakespeare’s, 234; 
of Old English, 53 
Proper names, words from, 306 
Proto-Germanic, 32 
Provençal, 29 
Provençals in England, 131–32 
Provence, Eleanor of, 131 
Provisions of Oxford, 133, 137, 139 
Prussian, 30 
Puerto Rico, emigrants from, 352; 
Spanish influence in, 329 
Punjabi, 24 
Purists, attitude of, 393; 
efforts of, 336 
Puttenham, George, 195, 204, 222, 250 
Pyles, Thomas, 17, 406 
Quakers, 242, 353, 388 
Queen’s College, Oxford, 139 
Quinton, C.L., 244 
Index 436

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Quirk, Randolph, 56, 316 
r
in American dialects, 373, 388 
Radio, words relating to, 299 
Raffles, Sir Stamford, 327 
Railroad, words relating to, 396 
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 250, 425 
Raleigh, Sir Walter (Oxford professor), 337