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yare, 130, 388.

yarm, 131.

yarn, 131.

yarnest, 131.

yarrow, 20, 316.
ychain'd, 606 a.
yclept, 606 a.
ye, 130, 467.

ye (=the), 97.
yea, 181, 202, 503.

yean, 131.

year, 130, 315.

yearn, 130.

yeast, 317.

yeaze, 131.
yell, 260.

yellow, 173, 388.
yellow-girted, 608.
yellow-ringleted, 607.
yelp, 130.

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York, 20, 603.
yote-ed (=pour), 274.
you, 33, 226, 246, 467,
470, 476.
young, 119, 130, 176,
187, 388.
youngling, 377.
youngster, 385.
your, 481.

your grace, 462.
your highness, 462.
your honour, 462.
your lordship, 462,
470.
your majesty, 462.
yourn, 484.

yours, 484, 485, 575.
yourselves, 469.

ypointing, 606 a.
yt (=that), 97.
ywis, 256.
ywroken, 267, 273.

Z (sound)=s, 346.
Z, the letter, 130, 132,

134.
zeal, 187.
zealous, 409,

zeir (Scottish), 130.
zenith, 353.
zephyr, 131.
Zephyrus, 134.
zero, 353, 514.
zh, 191.

zit (Scottish), 130.
Zummerzet, 133.

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Adjective, ambidextral, 84.

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office-bearing, 423.

morphology of, 425, 427.
Adverb, threefold, 428.

Flat, 430, 500, 514.
Flexional, 434, 515.
Phrasal, 445, 517.
Adverbiation, 451.
Æschylus, 608.

Agglutinate languages, 570.
Aldhelm, 27.
Alemannian dialect, 377.
Alexander, Romance of, 60.
Alexandrine metre, 60.
Alford, Dean, 238, 239, 404.

Alfred, his version of Gregory's
Cura Pastoralis, 27, 28, 29.
Alfred Jewel,' the, 285.
Allingham, William, 597.
Alliteration, 626, 629.

Alliterative couplings, 628.

Allophylian languages, 570.

Alphabet, pictorial origin of, 90, 91,
229, 614.

, Phonetic, 187.

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Alphabet, Runic, 93.
Alt-Hoch-Deutsch, 7, 11.
Ambidextral adjective, 84.
American usage, 154, 359, 375, 380,
430, 612, 620, 632.

conservation

276.

Analysis, 551, 553.

of old forms,

Analytic and Synthetic, 445,
Ancient languages, 245, 654.
Andrewes, Lancelot, 469.

Anglian dialect, 23, 26, 28, 86, 132.
Anglosaxon features, 14, 17, 30,
127, 421, 467, 469, 505, 575.
Anti-Jacobin, 650.
Arabic, numerals, 230.

words in English, 353.

Area of words, 32, 37.
Aristophanes, 608.
Arnold, Dr., 248.
Arnold, Matthew, 184.
Arthur, king, 47.
Article, definite, 491.

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indefinite, 498, 511.

Danish and Swedish, 8.

Articulation, 615.

Aryan languages, 2, 252, 465, 570.
Ascham, R., 318.

Aspirate consonants, 4.

Augmentatives, 376.

Austen, Jane, 440, 484, 497, 521.
Auxiliary verbs, 291, 294, 298, 300,
587.

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Baeda, 23, 24, 132.
Baillie, Joanna, 198.

Ballads, 518, 521, 525, 529, 580 b,
586.
Barbauld, Mrs., 235.
Barbour, poet, 26.

Barnes, poet of Dorset, 380, 586.

Barrow, Isaac, 579.
Baxter, R., 422.
Beattie, poet, 198.

Being, the expression of, 279, 280.
Benedict Biscop, 26.

Ben Jonson. See Jonson.
Beowulf, epic poen, 26, 136, 474.
Berkeley, Bp., 631.

Bible of Wiclif, 380, 505.

of 1535; 393, 431, 449, 474,
491, 496, 498, 517.

617.

of 1539; 335, 522, 543, 564.
Genevan, 270, 302, 335, 478,

of 1611; 204, 220, 235, 238,
255, 270, 271, 272, 273, 275,
302, 318, 371, 405, 422, 433,
444, 455, 467, 468, 474, 485,
495.

Bible translations, 13, 145, 165, 201,
208, 449, 469, 475, 489, 498,
505, 524, 580 g, 602.
Bilingual period, 42, 63, 84.
Bilingualism of English, 77.
Blair, Dr., 423.
Blank verse, 651.

Boethius tr. Chaucer, 398, 435.
Bopp, 459, 463.
Bosworth, Dr., 503.
Boyd-Kinnear, John, 536.
Brachet, Auguste, 338, 349, 632.
Bradley, Charles, 362.
Bréal, Michel, 459.

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Browning, Robert, 608.
Brutes, language of, 247.
Bunyan, John, 153, 241.
Burns, 269, 377, 399.
Butler, Joseph, 362.
Samuel, 174.

Cadmon, poet, 24, 136, 509.
Campbell, Thomas, 215, 335.
Cardinal vowels, 109.
Carlyle, Thomas,

499, 550, 601.
Case-endings, 378.

323, 396, 477,

Castrén, Alexander, his Samoyedian
Grammar, 126.

Caxton, William, 294, 325, 496,
534, 580, 586, 588.
Chaldee, 3.

Chalmers, Thomas, 349, 358.
Chapman his Homer, 275, 395.
Chaucer, 67, 73, 93, 125, 144, 155,
169, 177, 179, 200, 201, 232,
254, 264, 269, 283, 292, 294,
323, 326, 328, 336, 338, 394,
409, 423, 483, 489, 493, 535,
577, 647.

Childish speech, 125.
Chinese language, 223.
writing, 90.

accidence, 223.

syntax, 570.

'Chirt,' 147.

Christian names, 373.

Christianity and languages, 13.
Church, R. W., 580 d.
Clarendon quoted, 327.

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his style, 657.

Clarke, Mrs. Cowden, 530.
Classics, influence of, 359.
Claudius Cæsar a phonetic reformer,
186.

Clough, Arthur H., 202, 310, 321.
Cochin-Chinese, 462.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 272, 281,
472, 660 a.

Sir J. T., 478.

Collier, Jeremy, 363.

Collocation, 553 ff, 530.

Common Prayer Book, 321,384,564.

Browne, Sir Thomas, 184, 501.

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Suffolk, 380.

Sussex, 334.
Welsh, 2, 3, 648.

West Country, 61, 133, 255,

Westmoreland, 325.

, Yorkshire, 86, 167, 169, 580 h.
(For other examples see Provin-
cialisms.)

Dialects in general, 66, 221.

of German, 377.

local division of, 66.

Dickens, Charles, 172, 243, 373,
442, 448, 502, 503, 556, 580 f.
Diez, Friedrich, 337, 423, 639.
Diminutives, 376.

'Dim Saesoneg,' 42.

Diphthongs, 175.

Discord in Language, 594.

Disraeli, Isaac, 207.

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