A history of the English Language

Christ,
71 
Christ and Satan,
71 
Christianizing of Britain, 82 
Cicero, 205, 206 
Ciceronianism, 206 
Civil War, American, 351, 356 
Clanchy, M.T., 199 
Clapton, G.T., 140 
Clark, J.G.D., 72 
Clark, Cecily, 167 
Clark, Nona H., 383 
Classical example, 255, 282 
Classical Latin, 29 
Claudius, 46 
Clemoes, P., 96 
Clipped words, 259 
Clive, Lord, 289–90 
Cnut, King, 94 
Coady, James, 12 
Cockeram, Henry, 232 
Cohen, Margot, 327 
Coinages, 305, 396–97 
Coke, Sir Edward, 264 
Colchester, 117 
Index 413

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Coleridge, Herbert, 341 
Coleridge, S.T., 293, 393 
Collinge, N.E., 42 
Collingwood, R.G., 45, 72 
Collitz, Hermann, 41 
Colloquial language, 396–97 
Compounds, self-explaining, 65, 140, 183, 303; 
from Greek and Latin, 304 
Computer, words relating to, 298 
Concordia Regularis,
88 
Condé, Adelaide de, 119 
Connecticut, 353, 356 
Conservatism of American English, 360 
Consonant declension, 57 
Continental borrowing, 79 
Cook, A.S., 56 
Cook, Captain, 290 
Cook, Vivian J., 11 
Cooke, Thomas, 271 
Cooper,J.F., 357, 371–72 
corn,
363 
Cornish, 34 
Cornwall, John, 151 
Correctness of usage, 257 
Cosijn, P.J., 56 
Cosmopolitan vocabulary of English, 11 
Cotton, Sir Robert, 264 
Count of the Saxon Shore, 48 
Craigie, Sir William A., 239, 317, 335, 343, 348, 398 
Craven, Wesley A., 406 
Crécy, battle of, 141 
Creole hypothesis, 383 
Creole languages, 125, 331 
Cressy, David, 294 
Crete, 26 
Crimea, 296 
Crimean War, 296 
Croatia, 32 
Croatian, 32 
Crook, Eugene J., 236 
Crooke, William, 349 
Crossette, Barbara, 6 
Croyland, abbey of, 124 
Crystal, David, 16, 17, 405 
Cultural levels, 313 
Cunningham, W., 114 
Cursor Mundi,
138, 189, 409 
Custance ‘li Gentil’, Lady, 118 
Cynewulf, 71 
Cyprus, 26 
Cyril, 31 
Czech, 31; 
Index 414

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words from, 303 
Dalby, D., 383 
DanMichel, 417 
Danelaw, 94, 98 
Danes, 92ff. 
Daniel, 71 
Danielsson, Bror, 210 
Danish, 33, 
settlements in England, 92 
Dante, 134 
Daunt, Marjorie, 199 
Dauzat, Albert, 399 
David, Anglo-Norman poet, 118
David, C.W., 117, 118 
Davies, Hugh Sykes, 259 
Davies,J.S., 124 
Davis, Alva L., 400 
D’Costa, Jean, 349 
Deanesly, Margaret, 106 
DeCamp, David, 349, 383 
Declensions, strong and weak, 57, 160 
Deep South dialect, 378 
Defmite article, 59 
Defoe, Daniel, 266, 287 
Dekeyser, Xavier, 178, 198 
Delaware, 388 
Delbridge, Arthur, 320, 349 
Delbrück,B., 41 
Delcourt, Joseph, 251 
Dellit, Otto, 184, 198 
Dennis, John, 282 
Deor,
70 
De Quincey, Thomas, 312, 336 
De Selincourt, Basil, 337, 404 
Devon, 387 
DeVries, T., 188 
Dialect, East Midland, 189, 411–13; 
General American, 376, 381; 
Kentish, 53, 189–90, 417–19; 
London, 194, 249–50; 419–21; 
Mercian, 53; 
Northern, 189, 409–11; 
Northumbrian, 53, 103; 
of Norfolk, 122; 
of Scotland, 317; 
Southern, 189, 415–17; 
West Midland, 189, 414–15; 
West Saxon, 53 
Dialectal differentiation, 19 
Dialects, American, 376ff., 
Index 415

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English, 316; 
in former Empire, 319ff.; 
Irish, 318; 
Middle English, 189, 409ff.; 
Old English, 53; 
Old French, 28–29, 140
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Dictionaries of hard words, 232