Alphabetical (52 page)

grammar,
35
,
60–1
,
68
,
74
,
248
,
266
,
295
,
403

graphemes,
32
,
196

Great Vowel Shift,
3
,
23
,
42
,
64
,
80
,
108
,
151
,
228
,
311

Greek: language,
9
,
22
,
91
,
118
,
279
; culture,
18
; letters,
49
,
91
,
108
,
117–19
,
140
,
167
,
303
; alphabet,
115
; prefixes,
237
,
245

Greeks, ancient,
2
,
17–18
,
22
,
42
,
64
,
80
,
89
,
94
,
111–16
,
136
,
160
,
176
,
192
,
204
,
218
,
228
,
237
,
252
,
275
,
284
,
310
,
324
,
376
,
388

Green, Jonathon,
360–1

Grimm, Brothers,
112
,
328

Grosse Duden, Der
,
353

Guess, George,
167

Gutenberg, Johannes:
83–6
,
105
,
290–2
; Bible,
86

Häagen-Dazs,
327
,
330–2

Hadrian, Emperor,
239

Hadrian's Wall,
94
,
239

Hale, William Gardner,
132

Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph von,
10

Handbook of Simplified Spelling
,
246

handwriting: standard,
69

‘Hangul',
164–6

Hardy, Thomas,
385

Harris, Robert,
237

Harrow Road,
400

Harvey, P. J.,
184

Harvey Road Junior School,
353

hashtag,
293

Hastings, Battle of,
74

Haüy, Valentin,
304–5

Hawaiian language,
168

Heaney, Seamus,
279

Hebrew: ancient,
13–15
,
410
; vowels,
14–15
; alphabet,
15
; language,
22
,
27
,
182
,
253
,
279
; names,
218

Hegley, John,
273

Henry VIII, King,
197

Herbert, George,
89

Hercules,
275

Hess, Rudolf,
291

hieroglyphs,
9–10
,
22
,
117
,
130
,
160
,
192
,
204
,
218
,
252
,
268

Hill, Rowland,
128
,
392–3

Holland,
340

Holtom, Gerald,
299–300

Holy Roman Empire,
181

Home Service,
261
,
409
;
see also
BBC

Homer:
275–6
,
396
;
The Iliad
,
275
;
The Odyssey
,
275–6

homoconsonantism,
406

homonyms,
46

Hooke, Robert,
297

Hopkins, Gerard Manley,
278–9
; ‘The Windhover',
279

Horace,
276

Howell, James,
245

Hughes, Ted,
279

Hugo, Victor,
285

Hungarian language,
294

Hussein, Saddam,
287

Huxley, Aldous,
114

ibn Wahshiyah:
10–12
;
Kitab Shawq al-Mustaham
,
10

‘ibn Wahshiyah–Champollion' principle of decoding,
12

Icelandic alphabet,
19

idioms,
46
,
395
,
405

Iliad, The
,
275
;
see also
Homer

illuminated manuscripts,
83
,
144
,
182

indefinite article,
3

India: Lisu spoken in,
169

Indian: speakers,
65
; pronunciation,
335

Initial Teaching Alphabet (ITA),
247

inscriptions: Roman,
160
,
228
,
252
,
284
,
324

Institute for Blind Youth,
304

‘insular G' (‘Irish G'),
76–7

interculturalism,
225

International Air Transport Association,
316

International Convention for the Amendment of English Orthography,
245

International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA),
168
,
302

International Radiotelegraphic Convention,
317

internet,
47
,
50–1
,
56
,
147
,
170
,
250
,
300
,
319–21
,
399

Interspel,
247

Ionian: alphabet,
18
; philosophers,
197–9

iota,
113–14
,
136
,
188

Ipswich,
240

Iraq,
11–13
,
163
,
171

Ireland:
69
,
124
,
233
,
341
; Northern,
124

Irish: speech,
23
; ‘Irish G',
76
; language,
77
; spelling,
96
; names,
219
; Old,
275
; verse,
276
; writing,
290
,
329

Isis
(student magazine),
262

Isle of Man: runic inscriptions found,
340–3

Ismay, Bruce,
314

isopangram,
404

Italy: Etruscan,
18
; Roman,
137
; northern,
343

Jackson, Charles Thomas,
301

Jae-Sang, Park (‘Psy'),
163

Jagger, Mick,
58

jargon,
321
,
360
;
see also
slang

Jeffers, Oliver,
147

Jefferson, Thomas,
241

Jenson, Nicolas,
86

Jesus Christ,
110
,
114
,
182
,
188
,
231–2
,
371–2

Jews: treatment in Denmark,
331

Johns, Ted,
127

Johnson, Samuel,
142
,
150
,
247
,
352

jokes,
32
,
95
,
140
,
153
,
157
,
174
,
183–4
,
214
,
294
,
320–1
,
335
,
349
,
358

Judaic texts,
189

Julius Caesar,
42–3
,
53–6
,
61
,
132
,
181
,
238
,
397

Jutes, the,
19
,
340–2

Kabbalah,
189

Kante, Solomana,
167–8

kappa,
114
,
160

Kelly, Obadiah,
223

Kenosha Telegraph
,
256

Kensington runestone,
338
,
341
,
344

Kiernan, Kevin,
68

King, Martin Luther,
343

King James Bible,
292

Klingon,
168

Knott, Lady Veronica,
400

Kodak,
234

Korea:
163–6
,
294
; language,
163–6
,
294
; alphabet,
164–5

Kpo the Leopard
,
229

L'Association Phonétique Internationale (API),
302

Lafayette, Marquis de,
301

lambda,
114
,
118
,
176

language: evolution of,
23
,
384
; fictional,
168

Language in the National Curriculum Project (LINC),
187

laptop computer,
236
,
264
,
265

Latin: language,
13–20
,
27
,
74
,
77
,
80
,
85
,
102
,
108–9
,
124
,
130–2
,
137
,
144
,
150
,
180–2
,
192
,
200
,
233
,
238
,
244–5
,
252
,
268
,
279
,
284
,
295–6
,
302
,
334
,
340
,
346
,
396
; manuscripts,
252
,
268
,
284
,
334
; alphabet,
340
,
396

Lawrence, D. H.,
277

Lear, Edward,
208–10
,
365

Lebanon,
13

Lee, Christopher,
372

Leeu, Gheraert,
86

Leipzig,
353–4

Lethe, River,
197

Letraset,
103–5
,
145
,
262

lettering: Carolingian minuscule,
2
,
69–70
,
77
,
108
,
150
,
160
,
176
,
204
,
252
,
268
,
310
,
346
,
364
,
376
; serif,
2
,
22
,
42
,
64
,
80
,
103
,
108
,
136
,
144
,
160
,
176
,
192
,
228
,
264
,
284
,
310
,
388
; Gothic,
27
,
71
,
219
,
279
,
291–2
,
328
; non-Roman,
73
; graffiti,
147
; Roman ‘minuscule',
290

letters: disappeared,
19
,
67
,
70–7
,
186
,
262
,
311
,
330
,
339
,
346
; inverted,
303

Lewis, C. S.,
184

lexicographers,
110
,
161
,
193
,
334

Lilburne, John,
242

Lindgren, Harry,
247

Lisu language,
169

Little, William,
349
,
368

Londinium,
391

London: accent,
5
; vowels,
5
,
112
,
325
; cipher school in,
49
; old schools in,
90
; School Board for (SBL),
90
; speakers,
129
; Zoo,
208
;
A–Z Guide to
,
399–401
; street atlas,
400–1

Londoners,
95
,
129
,
233
,
365
,
395

Lords, House of,
185
,
247
,
392

Louis XVI,
304

Lower Saxony,
340

lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD),
180

McCaffary, John,
256

Maeshowe, Orkneys,
344
;
see also
Vikings

Maida Vale,
400

Mainz,
84–6

Manding languages,
167

Mann, Thomas,
291