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1 Some Preliminary Considerations1

2 From Runes to Printing7

The‘Fu？orc’used in Old English inscriptions8

A name-stone in St Hilda’s Church，Hartlepool8

3 From Williarn Caxton to George Washington：1476 to 177620

4 The Disjunctive Period：1776 to the Present Day34

5 Literature，Ritualistic Works，and Language58

6 The Recording of English in Dictionaries and Grammars77

Columns fromOEDandA SupplementtotheOED90

A page from Fowler’s A Dictionary ofModern English Usage100

A page from F.Th.Visser，An Historical Syntax of the English Language102

7 Vocabulary105

Words for the cow-house129

Origin and development of the word slum131

8 Pronunciation and Spelling137

9 The Syntactical Arrangement of Words149

10 Dispersed Forms of English159

Notes174

Bibliography187

Index191