A history of the English Language

Scottish National Dictionary,
317 
Scottish settlers in America, 353, 355, 388 
Scragg, D.G., 107, 239 
Scudder, Horace E., 371, 406 
Seafarer, The,
70 
Sebeok, Thomas A., 276, 349 
Selden, John, 264 
Self-explaining compounds, 65, 140, 183, 303 
Seneca, 205 
Seneschaucie,
136 
Senlac, battle of, 111 
Serbian, 32 
Serbo-Croatian, 31 
Index 439

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Serjeantson, Mary S., 16, 198 
Sexist language, 338 
Sey, K.A., 323 
Seychelles, English language in, 325 
Shakespeare, William, 104, 226, 233, 234, 238–39, 240, 242
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48, 250, 256, 262, 345, 351, 360; 
language of, 233ff.; 
pronunciation of, 234, 239 
shall 
and
 will,
104, 279 
Shapin, Steven, 254 
Shapiro, Barbara J., 254, 294 
Sharpe, R.R., 149 
Shaw, George Bernard, 314 
she,
162 
Sheard, J.A., 347 
Shelley, P.B., 203 
Shelly, P.V. D., 112, 117, 120 
Shenandoah Valley, 354
Sheridan, Thomas, 258, 271, 262, 270, 271, 274–76, 288 
Shevoroshkin, V., 23 
Short, Ian, 126, 157 
Shuy, R.W., 407 
Sidney, Sir Philip, 208, 224, 231 
Siemerling, O., 198 
Sierra Leone, English language in, 322, 330 
Sievers, E., 56 
Silva, Penny M., 349 
Simplified Spelling Board, 335 
Simpson, J.A., 343, 347 
Singapore, English language in, 327 
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,
156 
Size of English, 4, 6; 
of European languages, 4 
Skal, George von, 406 
Skeat, W.W., 137, 177, 197, 198, 239, 334 
Skelton, John, 156, 215 
Slang, 311 
Slavic countries, immigrants from, 352 
Slavic languages, 30ff. 
Sledd, James H., 294, 314, 323, 381, 395 
Slettengren, Emrik, 197 
Slovak, 31 
Slovene, 32 
Smith, Henry Lee, 402 
Smith, Larry E., 17 
Smith, John, 363 
Smith, L.P., 337 
Smith, Thomas, 210 
Smyth, A.H., 370, 391 
Snellgrove, Harold S., 132 
Social consciousness, influence of, 202 
Social life, words relating to, 171 
Society for Pure English, 337 
Index 440

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Society of Antiquaries, 264 
Sociolinguistics, 401 
Somalia, English language in, 325 
Sommer, Ferdinand, 42 
Somner, William, 286 
Sopwell, nuns of, 147 
Sorbian, 31 
Sound change, 235 
South Africa, English language in, 321 
South America, words from, 291 
South Asia, English language in, 325 
South Atlantic settlements, 354 
South Carolina, 354, 381, 383 
South Dakota, 389 
South Midland dialect in American dialectology, 378 
South Slavic, 31 
Southampton, 114, 124 
Southern dialect in England, 189, 415; 
in America, 359, 376–79, 380–81 
Southern Europe, immigrants to America from, 352 
Southey, Robert, 293
Space exploration, words relating to, 298 
Spalding, prior of, 124 
Spanish, 4, 7, 8, 29; 
words from, 12, 228, 291, 303 
Spargo, John W., 16 
Spears, A.K., 383 
Spectator, The,
268, 288 
Speech, 18 
Speitel, H.H., 317, 348 
Spelling, American, 369; 
English, 14, 55, 414ff.; 
reform, 15, 208ff., 334, 369, 265; 
reform associations, 334 
Spelman, Sir Henry, 264 
Spender, Dale, 350 
Spenser, Edmund, 164, 212, 231, 250 
Speroni, 204 
Spoken standard, 313, 315 
Sprat, Thomas, 253, 255 
Sri Lanka, English language in, 325 
Stackhouse, Thomas, 257 
Standard English, 182, 194, 250, 315 
Stanyhurst, Richard, 209, 424 
Starnes, D.T., 252 
Statute of Pleading, 149 
Steel, lan K., 406 
Steele, Sir Richard, 261 
Stein, Gabriele, 252 
Steinki, J., 252 
Stenton, Doris, 106 
Stenton, F.M., 72, 75, 105, 106, 112 
Index 441

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Stephen, King, 116, 118 
Stevenson, W.H., 157, 151 
Stewart, William, 140 
Stewart, W.A., 383 
Stidston, R.O., 242 
Stimming, A., 197 
Stockwell, Robert P., 68, 239 
Stone Age, 43 
Stratford-at-Bow, 141, 177 
Strang, Barbara, M.H., 17 
Strayer, J.R., 129 
Streitberg, W., 41 
Strevens, Peter, 323 
Strong, H.A., 16 
Strong declension, 57, 58 
Strong participles, 164 
Strong verbs, 60, 164, 247; 
classes of, 60–61; 
losses among, 163; 
new, 164–65; 
which became weak, 163 
Stubbs, William, 120, 129 
Studer,P., 114 
Sturluson, Snorri, 33 
Sturtevant, E.H., 42 
Subbiondo, Joseph L., 294 
Suffixes, 64–65, 66, 182, 304 
Suffolk, 387; 
whine, 357 
Sugg, R.S., Jr., 275 
Suggett, Helen, 153
Sullivan, Sir Edward, 221