The Philology of the English Tongue

accent adjectival adjective adverb alliteration already ancient appears become belongs called cause century character Chaucer common compared compound conjunction continuous dialect difference distinction early effect English example expression fact familiar flexion French function German give grammatical Greek habit hand idea illustration indicate infinitive instances John King known language Latin less letter literature living look lost manner means mind nature notice noun observe once original passed perhaps period person phrase plural poetry position preposition present pronoun pronunciation Queene reason regard rendered represented retained Saxon seems seen sense sentence signifies sometimes sort sound speak speech stand substantive syllable symbolic syntax term termination thing third thou thought tion traces true verb vowel whole word writing written