The English Language Volume 2 Essays by Linguistics and Men of Letters 1858-1964CUP Archive |
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Contents
English Rational and Irrational from | 30 |
Slang in America from The North | 54 |
A Plea for Speech | 80 |
The Societys Work Society for Pure | 86 |
Broadcast English BBC Pamphlet | 100 |
Needed Words Society for Pure | 114 |
Language from Encyclopedia of the Social | 131 |
The Structure of Learned Words | 157 |
from The Philosophy of Rhetoric page | 171 |
The Social Significance of Differences | 203 |
Politics and the English Language from | 217 |
English or American? from | 242 |
Pronunciation of English in the United States | 269 |
The Lexicographers Uneasy Chair from | 284 |
Study Questions | 305 |
The Value of PlaceName Study from | 163 |
Common terms and phrases
accepted adjective allophones alternant before suffix American English analysis appear attempt base become called century checked vowels Cockney colloquial common consonant convenient criticism culture definition derived dialects dictionary diphthong distinction educated elements EMnE England English language essay example expression fact foreign words free vowels French German Gerundive give grammar H. L. MENCKEN important Infinitival Nominal inflected inflexions instance kind large number Latin learnèd letters linguistic literary logical Lord Macaulay meaning morpheme names nature notion noun obsolete occur Old English original peculiar person pheme phonetic phonic phrase place-names plural political prefix present preterit principle pronounced pronunciation quotations reference relation Saxon scientific sense sentence simple slang social sound speak speakers speech spelling spoken Standard English stress structure suffix morphemes syllables symbols syntactic things tion Tract usage verb vocabulary writing