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1 Some Preliminary Considerations 1

2 From Runes to Printing 7

The‘Fu？orc’used in Old English inscriptions 8

A name-stone in St Hilda’s Church，Hartlepool 8

3 From Williarn Caxton to George Washington：1476 to 1776 20

4 The Disjunctive Period：1776 to the Present Day 34

5 Literature，Ritualistic Works，and Language 58

6 The Recording of English in Dictionaries and Grammars 77

Columns fromOEDandA SupplementtotheOED 90

A page from Fowler’s A Dictionary ofModern English Usage 100

A page from F.Th.Visser，An Historical Syntax of the English Language 102

7 Vocabulary 105

Words for the cow-house 129

Origin and development of the word slum 131

8 Pronunciation and Spelling 137

9 The Syntactical Arrangement of Words 149

10 Dispersed Forms of English 159

Notes 174

Bibliography 187

Index 191