Alphabetical (50 page)

Sassoon, Rosemary,
Marion Richardson: Her Life and Her Contribution to Handwriting
(Intellect, 2011)

Singh, Simon,
The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Code-Breaking
(Fourth Estate, 1999)

Tuer, Andrew W.,
History of the Horn Book
(first published 1897; Arno Press, 1979)

Ward, Jamie,
The Frog Who Croaked Blue: Synesthesia and the Mixing of Senses
(Routledge, 2008)

INDEX

Abdülmecid, Sultan,
302

Abish, Walter:
Alphabetical Africa
,
403

abjad,
14

accents: cedilla,
43
,
329
; umlaut,
327–32
; circumflex,
329–30
; tilde,
329

acronyms,
96
,
118
,
188–90
,
199
,
302
,
321
,
392

acrostics,
190
,
197–9
,
403

Action on Smoking and Health,
189

‘adlaut',
328–32

Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, The
(TV series),
118

African: peoples,
168
,
224
; languages,
205

Agüera y Arcas, Blaise,
84–5

Albany Centinel
(periodical),
358

Alberti, Leon Battista,
55

Aldermaston,
299

Aldwych,
391

Alexander I, Tsar,
305

Alexandria (Minnesota),
338

Alexandria: great library,
396

Alfred, King,
10

Algonquian family,
169

Ali, Muhammad,
398

Allen, Woody,
398

alliteration,
36
,
205
,
213
,
272–4
,
278
,
385

alpha:
2–3
,
91
,
113–14
,
182
,
396
; ‘alpha-bravo' lingo,
315

alphabet: square,
55
; activities,
171
; rhymes,
207
; poems,
212
; games,
403
; elimination,
411

alphabetic cipher,
53
,
57–9

alphabetic principle,
32–6
,
77
,
212

Alphabetical Africa
,
403–4

alphabetical order,
255–6
,
352
,
356
,
362
,
393–9
,
405

alphabets: Americanist Phonetic,
303
; Arabic,
89
; Athenian,
376
; consonantal,
14
; Deseret,
247
; digital,
171
; English,
5
,
18–19
,
142
,
168
; evolution of,
12
,
17
; fictional,
168
; Futhark,
339
,
342
; Futhorc,
342
; Goblin,
168
; Greek,
115
; Hebrew,
15
; Icelandic,
19
; International Phonetic (IPA),
303
; Initial Teaching (ITA),
247
; Ionian,
18
; Korean,
164
; Latin,
20
,
130
,
192
,
340
,
346
,
396
; memory-jogging,
407
; New English,
168
; Old English,
19
,
70
,
76
,
142
; Phoenician,
2
,
13–17
,
113
; phonetic,
111
,
231–2
,
247
,
315
; Pitman,
235
; Roman,
18–20
,
72
,
137
,
303
,
340
,
382
; Romic,
247
; Shavian,
247
; Tolkien,
168
; Viking,
19
,
71
,
338–9

America, United States of,
57
,
65
,
94
,
114
,
127
,
162–3
,
169
,
171
,
177
,
180
,
184
,
199
,
219
,
246
,
316
,
319
,
337
,
357
,
368
,
389
,
391–2

American: Civil War,
55
,
351
; Army,
88
,
355
; National Education Association,
245
; Philological Society,
245
; spelling,
245
,
357
; Spelling Reform Association,
245
; English,
246
,
355

Americanist Phonetic Alphabet,
303

Andrews, Julie,
200
,
398

Andyoqenya,
168

Angles, the,
19
,
339
,
342
,
372

Anglo-Saxon language,
19
,
67–9
,
339–40
,
391
;
see also
Old English

Antony, Mark,
238

Apollinaire, Guillaume,
89
,
279

Apple computers,
264

Arabic: language,
10
,
14
,
116
,
253
,
276
,
295
; manuscripts,
10
; alphabet,
89

Archaea: city of,
91

Aristophanes,
140–2

Arrius,
132–3

art deco,
223

Arts and Crafts movement,
98
,
143

Asia,
85

assonance,
36
,
213
,
272–4
,
278

Athenian alphabet,
376

Athens,
140
,
237

Auden, W. H.,
184

Augustus, Emperor,
397

Aurebesh,
168

Austen, Jane,
357

Austin, Eric,
299

Australia,
232
,
247
,
392

A–Z Guide to London
,
399

AZERTY keyboard,
258
;
see also
typewriter

Babington, Anthony,
48–50

Bacall, Lauren,
313

Bath Spa University: Pitman Archive,
234

BBC: Schools Radio,
262
; Radio 4,
320
,
360
,
409
; Home Service,
350
; Television,
394

Beacon Readers,
37–8
,
103

Beatles, the,
67

Belgae,
340

Belle Absente
,
404–5

Belle Présente
,
404

Beowulf
(poem),
67–76

Berlin,
317

Bernstein, Leonard,
313

beta,
22–3
,
113
,
396

Bible:
27
,
84–7
,
144
,
169
,
292
,
356
; Gutenberg,
86
; Wycliffe,
279–80
; King James,
292

Bibliographisches Institut AG,
353

‘Big Brother',
322

Bildwörterbuch (picture-words book),
353

bilingualism,
248

Blake, William,
67

Bletchley Park: codebreakers,
45–6

Blue Back Speller
,
357

Bonaparte, Napoleon,
297
,
303

Boston,
196
,
224–5
,
319

Boy's Own Paper
,
46
,
298
,

brachygraphy,
237

Bradford: Commonwealth Collection,
300

Bradley, Charles,
196

Braille, Louis,
303–6

Bridges, Margaret,
98–100

Bridges, Robert,
98
,
279

Bright, Timothie,
239
;
Characterie
,
240

Bristol Gardens,
400

British Empire,
98
,
161

British English,
140
,
177–8
,
195
,
388

British Isles,
339
,
342–3

British Museum,
9–13
,
67

Broadmoor Hospital,
351

Brockton, Massachusetts,
355

Brontë, Emily
329

Bronx,
331
,
364

Brooklyn,
331

Brooksville,
314

Buren, Martin Van,
224

Burma: language spoken in,
169

Bush, George W.,
184

Byron, Lord,
357

cabal,
189

Caesar, Julius,
42
,
53
,
132
,
181
,
238
,
397

Caine, Michael,
398

‘Calligrammes',
89

Calliope,
197

Cameron, David,
320

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,
300

Canterbury Tales, The
,
74
,
87

capital letters,
69
,
83–7
,
143
,
146

Captain Midnight
(radio show),
57–8

Carnegie, Andrew,
246

Carolingian minuscule (lettering),
2
,
69
,
87
,
108
,
160
,
176
,
204
,
252
,
268
,
310
,
364
,
376
,
388

Carpathia
, SS,
314

Carroll, Lewis:
89
,
141
,
209
,
408
;
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
,
89
,
209

Carthage,
13
,
297

Catholics,
49
,
124
,
189
;
see also
Roman: Catholicism

Catullus, Gaius Valerius,
131–3
,
276

Cawdrey, Robert,
398

Caxton, William,
87
,
290

cedilla,
43
,
329
;
see also
accents

Celto-Germanic peoples,
339–40

Césaire, Aimé,
168

Champollion, Jean-François,
10–12
,
116–17

Chappe, Claude,
297–8

Characterie
,
240

Chardin, Teilhard de,
381

Charlemagne:
2
,
68
,
180–1
; scribes of,
108
,
136
,
150
,
160
,
176
,
192
,
204
,
252
,
268
,
284
,
310
,
346
,
376

Charles II, King,
189

Charles VII, King,
86

Chartley Hall,
48

Chaucer, Geoffrey:
73–4
,
87
,
109
,
116
;
Canterbury Tales, The
,
74
,
87

Cherokee nation,
167

chi,
114

Chicago Tribune
,
246

Child, Lauren,
147

China,
164
,
169
,
239

Chinese language,
12
,
164
,
205
,
253
,
276

‘chi-ro' symbol,
91

Choctaw nation,
223

‘Choson'gul',
164

Christian missionaries,
169

Christianity:
69
,
74
,
91
,
168–70
,
188
,
340
,
371
; Irish form,
69