The Adventure of English (39 page)

Baker, Philip, and Bruyn, Adrienne:
St. Kitts and the Atlantic Creoles: The Texts of Samuel Augustus Mathews in Perspective
(London, University of Westminster Press, 1998)

Hakluyt, Richard:
Voyages and Discoveries
(London, Penguin Books, 1972) (includes John Hawkins' voyage to the Indies, 1564)

Krise, Thomas W. (ed.):
Caribbeana: An Anthology of English Literature of the West Indies 1657–1777
(Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1999) (includes James Grainger's
The Sugar Cane
)

Parkes, Fanny:
Begums, Thugs and White Mughals
(ed. Dalrymple, William) (London, Eland Books, 2003)

Yule, Col. Henry, and Burnell, Arthur Coke:
Hobson-Jobson
(London, John Murray, 1986)

Black, Clinton V.:
Pirates of the West Indies
(Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989)

Burchfield, Robert (ed.):
The Cambridge History of the English Language, Vol. V — English in Britain and Overseas: Origins and Development
(Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994)

Crystal, David:
Language Death
(Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000)

Dalby, Andrew:
Language in Danger
(New York, Columbia University Press, 2003)

Delbridge, A., et al. (eds.):
The Macquarie Dictionary: Australia's National Dictionary
(revised 3rd edn) (Macquarie, 2001)

Farrington, Anthony:
Trading Places: The East India Company and Asia 1600–1834
(London, British Library, 2002)

Hughes, Robert:
The Fatal Shore
(New York, Knopf, 1987)

James, Lawrence:
Raj: The Making of British India
(New York, St. Martin's Press, 1998)

Lewis, Ivor:
Sahibs, Nabobs and Boxwallahs: A Dictionary of the Words of Anglo-India
(Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1991)

Mitchell, David:
Pirates
(New York, Delacorte Press, 1976)

Nettle, Daniel, and Romaine, Suzanne:
Vanishing Voices
(Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000)

Tully, Mark:
No Full Stops in India
(New York, Viking, 1991)

Ayto, John:
Twentieth Century Words
(Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999)

Fussell, Paul:
The Great War and Modern Memory
(New York, Oxford University Press, 2000)

Gardiner, Juliet:
Over Here: The Gls in Wartime Britain
(London, Collins & Brown, 1992)

Graddol, David:
The Future of English?
(London, British Council, 1997)

Graddol, David, and Meinhof, Ulrike H. (eds.):
English in a Changing World
(AILA Review 13) (Oxford, Association Internationale de Linguistique Applique/International Association of Applied Linguistics, 1999)

Partridge, Eric:
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
(3rd edn) (London, Routledge, 1949) (There are later editions, but this was useful for finding wartime slang.)

Partridge, Eric, and Clark, John W.:
British and American English Since 1900
(Westport, Greenwood Press, reprint 1968)

black English (
see
black English)

cities and

Declaration of Independence

democratic ideal and

Dutch and

education and

English dialects and

French and

gangster culture and

German and

Irish and

as key to success of English

movies and

Native Americans and

Pilgrims

place names from England

Scots and

southern

Spanish and

vs.
English English

Webster's spelling book

western (
see
American western frontier)

World War II

city names

cowboys

Crockett and Tall Talk

drink and drunkenness terms

French language

gambling terms

gold rush terms

Lewis and Clark expedition

Native Americans

Spanish language and

Tall Talk

Aboriginal languages

“bloody,” use of

convict speech

English dialects in

Macquarie Dictionary

nineteenth-century slang

place names

pronunciation

“Waltzing Matilda,”

word endings and abbreviations

Beatitudes

Bishops'

black English and

Creation Story

Douai-Rheims

Geneva

Great

King James Version

Latin

Matthew

Pilgrims and

Shakespeare and

Tyndale's translation

Wycliffe's translation

Gullah

pidgin

segregation

and southern white English

spirituals

Twain and

Uncle Remus stories

in the urban north

dialects in

the Knight

Miller's Tale

Nun's Priest's Tale

opening lines

Pardoner's Tale

pilgrims, introduction of

printing of

Reeve's Tale

swear words in

The Canterbury Tales

life of

Troilus and Criseyde

arrival in England

the Bestiary

in India

Pilgrims

Chaucer's use of

class and

Cockney

Cumbrian

London

pronunciation police

Renaissance and

Shakespeare and

Standard English and

television and

theater and

in West Indies

Australian

first

Grose's

Johnson's

recent additions to

Webster's

Chaucer

Enlightenment

Germanic invasion (
see
Germanic invasion)

Industrial Revolution

Norman Conquest (
see
Norman Conquest)

Renaissance (
see
Renaissance)

Shakespeare

standardization for courts and documents

Tyndale's Bible

Viking invasion

World War I,

World War II,

Wycliffe's Bible

American English and

in
Canterbury Tales

dictionary

Norman (
see
Norman French)

Renaissance and

words from