The Adventure of English (40 page)
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Authors: Melvyn Bragg
Gaelic
gambling
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand
gay slang
Geneva Bible
geology
Germanic invasion
Celtic and
Christianity and
origins of English
runes
Germanic languages
German language
global language
Globe Theatre
Gordon, Lord
Graddol, David
Grainger, James
grammar
Great Bible
Great Exhibition (London, 1851)
Great Vowel Shift (GVS)
Greek
Greene, Richard
Gregory, Pope
Grimm, Jakob
Grimm's Fairy Tales
(Grimm)
Grose, Francis
Grub Street
Guardian
Gullah
Gulliver
(Swift)
GVS (Great Vowel Shift)
Hackney, Iscariot (Richard Savage)
hacks
Haiti
Hakluyt, Richard
Hamlet
(Shakespeare)
Hard Words Made Easy
Harold, King
Harris, George
Harris, Joel Chandler
Hastings, Battle of (1066)
Hastings, Warren
Hawkins, John
Heaney, Seamus
Hebrew
Henry II, King
Henry III, King
Henry IV, King
Henry V
(Shakespeare)
Henry V, King
Henry VIII, King
Herbert, George
Hereford, Nicholas
Higden, Ranulf
Hindi
Historia Regum Brittaniae
(Geoffrey of Monmouth)
Hobson-Jobson
Hokun
Hood, Thomas
Hopkins, Gerard Manley
Horton, George Moses
“hotel,”
Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey
“h,” pronunciation of
Huckleberry Finn
(Twain)
Hughes, Robert
Hughes, Ted
Ido
The Importance of Being Earnest
(Wilde)
India
absorption of English
Babu English
Butler English
Hindi
Hobson-Jobson
imposition of English
independence
Sanskrit
trade with
words from
Indo-European
Industrial Revolution
“industry,”
Inkhorn Controversy
“The Integrated Adjective” (O'Grady)
Interlingua
international language
Internet
intoxication
Ireland/Irish
Italian
Jackson, Andrew
Jamaica
James VI, King
Japan
jeans (Levis)
Jefferson, Thomas
Jenkins, Jennifer
Jespersen, Otto
John, King
Johnson, Samuel
Jones, Charles C., Jr.
Jones, William
Jonson, Ben
journalism
Jutes
“kangaroo,”
Keats, John
King James Bible
Kipling, Rudyard
“knave,”
knights
Knox, Alfred
Kolkata (Calcutta)
Ku Klux Klan
Lake District (England)
Langland, William
language
disappearance of
evolution of
international/global
as means to end all disputes
original
as product of all types of people
universal
written (
see
writing)
Latin
Alfred's translations
Black Death, effects of
as international language
language of the Church
Normans and
Renaissance and
science and
words from
Wycliffe's Bible translation and
Lauder, Afferbeck
Lavoisier, Antoine
Lawrence, D. H.
Le Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française
Let Stalk Strine
(Lauder)
Lewis, Meriwether
Lewis and Clark expedition
Lindisfarne Gospels
Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English
lions
Little Dorrit
(Dickens)
Lloyds Coffee House
Locke, John
Lockhart, John
Lollards
London (England)
London Labour and the London Poor
(Mayhew)
Lord's Prayer
Lou, Miss
Louisiana Purchase
Lowe, Katie
Lowth, Robert
lullaby
Luther, Martin
Lyell, Charles
Lyrical Ballads
(Wordsworth)
Macaulay, Thomas Babington
Macmillan, Harold
Macpherson, James
Macquarie Dictionary
Made in America
(Bryson)
Magna Carta
malapropisms
Malay
Maldon, Battle of (991)
Malory, Thomas
Mandarin Chinese
Manning, Harold
Marie de France
Marshall, William, Earl of Pembroke
Masters of Chancery
Matthew Bible
Matthews, Samuel
Mayflower Compact
Mayhew, Henry
McCoy, Joseph
McCrum, Robert
medicine
The Memoirs of John Ker of Kersland
The Merry Wives of Windsor
(Shakespeare)
Mexican language
Middle English
A Midsummer Night's Dream
(Shakespeare)
Mill, John Stuart
Mind Your Hs, Harry Hawkins' H Book
Modern English
Mohocks
Monboddo, Lord
More, Thomas
Morrison, Toni
Mother Tongue
(Bryson)
movies
Mugglestone, Linda
Mulcaster, Richard
My Fair Lady
(movie)
The Myrrour of the Worlde
Mystery Plays
Nahautl
Native Americans
Indian pidgin
Pilgrims and
words from
Netherlands
New England Primer
New England's Prospect
(Wood)
Newton, Isaac
A New Voyage to Guinea
(Smith)
Nicholas of Guildford
Nicolini, Marquis
Niger-Congo language family
“nigger,”
Nixon, Richard
Norman Conquest
assimilation
Black Death and
Edward I
Eleanor of Aquitaine
feudalism
Henry II, King
Henry IV, King
Peasant's Revolt (1381)
Richard II
survival of English
William the Conqueror
Norman French
almost synonyms
English resistance to
imposition of
as language of trade
poetic tradition
Renaissance and
as threat to English
words from
Northanger Abbey
(Austen)
Norwegians
novels
Novial
Of English Verse
(Waller)
O'Grady, John
“OK/okay,”
Old English
Alfred's translations from Latin
alphabet
American western frontier and
Battle of Maldon, story of
Beowulf
Christianity and
Churchill's speech
common words from
Cumbrian dialect and
Exeter Book
Inkhorn Controversy
lullaby
Norman Conquest and
plurals
prepositions
Shakespeare and
word order
written
Oldmixon, John
Old Norse
Oliver Twist
(Dickens)
Omeros
(Walcott)
On the Dialect of the Craven
(Anon)
Oregon trail
Orm
Ormulum
(Orm)
Orwell, George
Ossian Poems
Othello
(Shakespeare)
Our Mutual Friend
(Dickens)
Ovington, John
“The Owl and the Nightingale” (Nicholas of Guildford)
Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford University
Paine, Thomas
Paston Letters
Pastoral Care
(Pope Gregory)
Patterson, Banjo
Patwa
Peano, Giuseppe
Peasants' Revolt (1381)
Penkridge, Richard
Penn, William
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Dutch
Persian
Peru
Peterborough Chronicle
Pettie, George
Pevensey Castle (England)
Philip II, King
Philip IV, King
physics
pidgin
Piers Plowman
(Langland)
Pinker, Stephen
piracy
plague
plain English
planets
Plimouth Plantation (Massachusetts)
plurals
Poems â Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
(Burns)
poetry
alliterative verse
Beowulf
Burns, Robert
fixed language and
Keats, John
Langland's
Piers Plowman
Norman Conquest and
Ossian Poems
Renaissance
runes and
Scotland
Wordsworth, William
Polychronicon
(Higden)
Poor LittleH â Its Use and Abuse
Pope, Alexander
Porter, Roy
Portugal
prefixes
prepositions
Priestley, Joseph
printing press
Pronouncing Dictionary
(Walker)
pronouns
pronunciation
Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue
(Swift)
Protestantism
Protocollum books
Puttenham, George
Pygmalion
(Shaw)