Alphabetical (51 page)

chromosomes,
367–71

Church, the,
74
,
276
,
299
,
393

Churchill, Winston,
335

Cicero,
132
,
237–8

ciphers,
45–62
,
183
;
see also
codes

circumflex,
329–30
;
see also
accents

Cirth of Daeron,
168

Clay, Cassius,
398

Clio,
197

code: secret,
47
,
49–56
,
183
,
187
,
303
;
see also
cipher
;
Ecriture Nocturne
;
encryption

Code-O-Graph,
57

code-breaking,
45
,
51–3
,
172
;
see also
Bletchley Park
;
Enigma machine

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,
396

Collins, Benjamin,
26

Commonwealth: Cromwell's,
352

Commonwealth Collection, Bradford,
300

communication: long-distance,
301

Communist East,
354

Communist Party,
99
,
186

computer: laptop,
236
,
264
,
265

computer-programming languages,
171

concrete poetry,
89–90
,
279

consonants: sounds,
23
,
43
,
65
,
96
,
109
,
162
,
178
,
193
,
205
,
229
; silent,
112
,
244
; consistent,
151
; Korean,
166
; sympathetic,
204
; non-percussive,
385

consonant-vowel formations,
81
,
137

consonantal alphabet,
14

Constantine, Emperor,
91

Cook, Captain James,
168

Cooke, William,
301–2

Coulson, J.,
349–51

Coupvray,
304

Cree language,
169

Cromwell, Oliver,
352
,
359

crossword puzzles:
45–6
;
Boy's Own
,
46
;
Daily Telegraph
,
45
;
Sunday Observer
,
46
; cryptic,
47

Crucifixion, the,
343
,
371–2

Cruikshank, George,
145

Crusades,
223

Crystal, David,
243–4

cummings, e. e.,
83
,
87–8
,
279

cuneiform script,
13

Czech language,
294
,
330

da Spira brothers,
290

Daguerre, Louis,
301

Daily Telegraph
crossword puzzle,
45
;
see also
Bletchley Park: codebreakers

Danish language,
294

Dartmoor,
381

Dato, Leonardo,
55

David Copperfield
,
242

Davis, Miles,
279

Debord, Guy,
394

Delmas's method,
405–6

delta,
49
,
64
,
113–14
,
316

Denmark,
331
,
340

Densmore, James,
256–8

Derby, Earl of,
209

Deseret alphabet,
247

Dewey system,
396

Dhi Fonètik Tîcerz' Asóciécon (FTA),
302

diacritics,
233
,
303
,
329–30
;
see also
accents
,

Dickens, Charles:
242
,
247
,
261
,
389
;
David Copperfield
,
242

dictaphones,
236

dictionaries: Oxford,
142
,
303
,
350–2
,
357
; Samuel Johnson's,
142
,
352
; Nursery Rhymes,
207
; Walker's,
233
; national,
243
; American,
349
;
Shorter Oxford
,
349
;
Webster's Collegiate
,
349
,
355–8
;
Oxford English
(OED),
351–2
,
358–60
;
Der Grosse Duden
,
353
; spelling,
354
; online,
360
; Urban,
360–2
; Wiktionary,
360
; monolingual,
398

dieresis,
219
,
327–9

digital alphabet,
171

Dionysius: Festival of,
140

disappeared letters,
19
,
67
,
70–2
,
311
,
339
,
346

D'ni,
168

Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge
see
Carroll, Lewis

Donne, John,
205

Doolittle, Hilda,
184

Douglas County, Minnesota,
337

Dr Seuss,
39

Drake, Sir Francis,
240

‘Dream of the Rood' (poem),
343

Duchamp, Marcel,
146
,
154
;
Mona Lisa
,
146
,
154

Duden, Konrad,
353–4

Dudley Writing Cards,
98

Dutch language,
110
,
294

Dyche, Thomas,
291

Dylan, Bob,
398

Eachard, John,
207

Early Versions
(radio series),
67

East Germany,
353

EastEnders
(TV show),
394

Ecole des Hautes Etudes,
303

Ecriture Nocturne (Night Writing),
303
;
see also
cipher
;
code
;
encryption

Edinburgh Court of Session,
369

Egypt,
10
,
91
,
237

Egyptian hieroglyphs,
9–10
,
22
,
130
,
160
,
192
,
204
,
218
,
252
,
268

Egyptians: ancient,
11–13
,
276

Eisenhower, Dwight D.,
184

electromagnetism,
114
,
301

elisions,
319

Elizabeth I, Queen,
48–9
,
240
,
398

Ellis, A. J.,
234

Emil and the Detectives
,
8
; film,
171

Enigma machine,
45
,
58–9
,
172
;
see also
Bletchley Park: codebreakers

Eminem (Marshall Bruce Mather III),
184–5
,
194

encryption,
47–52
;
see also
cipher
;
code
;
Ecriture Nocturne

Encylopaedia Britannica
,
292

English Civil War,
169
,
240–2
,
395

English Monosyllabary
,
28

English: Old,
19
,
67
,
70–7
,
81
,
109
,
137
,
142
,
245
,
274–5
,
278–9
,
334
,
339
,
343
,
346
,
376
,
384

English speakers,
23
,
131
,
162
,
167
,
178
,
205
,
214
,
234
,
325
,
328
,
329
,
346
,
399

English spelling: debate about,
243

English Spelling Reform Association,
245

Ephesus,
396

epsilon,
113

Erato,
197

‘Estuary' speakers,
129

eta,
114

eth,
19
,
76
,
339

ethel,
19
,
77
,
339

Etruscans,
3
,
18
,
23
,
42
,
80
,
94
,
108
,
130
,
161
,
204
,
252
,
268
,
284
,
310
,
324
,
364
,
388

etymology,
124
,
223
,
319
,
352

Euripides,
275

Euterpe,
197

Exeter text,
406

eye-rhyme,
406

Facebook,
104
,
147
;
see also
social media websites

Fair of St Ovid,
304

Fanelli, Sara,
147

Festival of Dionysius,
140

fictional languages,
168

First World War,
88
,
143
,
222
,
302
,
315
,
352

Flaten, Nils,
337

Follick, Dr Mont,
247

Fordyce, Bailie William,
369

Forster, Georg,
110

Fowler, H. W.,
349
,
351

France: adopts AZERTY keyboard,
258

Frankfurt am Main,
58

Franklin, Benjamin,
184
,
247

Franks, the,
19
,
340–2

Fraser script,
169

French language:
42–3
,
74
,
116
,
181
,
229
,
268
,
279
,
330
,
382
; Norman French,
3
,
7
,
19
,
23
,
64
,
73–4
,
80
,
137
,
218
,
268
,
310
,
340
,
347
,
388
; Modern French,
42
,
253
,
268

French Revolution,
144
,
297

Freud, Sigmund,
354
,
382

Frisians, the,
19
,
340–2

Frusen Glädjé,
331–2

Futhark (Viking alphabet),
339
,
342
;
see also
runes

Futhorc (Germanic alphabet),
342
;
see also
runes

Futura (typeface),
103
,
290–1

G: ‘insular' or ‘Irish',
76–7

Gaelic,
238
,
245

Gale, Leonard,
301

gamma,
113

Gardiner, Alan,
12

Garfield, Simon,
291

Gauss, Carl,
301

Gawain and the Green Knight
,
88

German dictionary:
Duden
,
353–4

Germanic: peoples,
7
,
339
,
342
; alphabet (Futhorc),
342

Germany: East,
353
; division of,
354
; history,
354

Gifford, Gilbert,
48–9

Giss, George
see
Guess, George

Glover, Sarah,
200–1

Goblin Alphabet,
168

Gondolinic Runes,
168

Götalander people,
338

gothic lettering,
291
,
328

Government Printing Office,
246

graffiti,
146–8
,
188
,
344