| 1.1. | Migrations of the Anglo-Saxons and other Germanic peoples in the early centuries AD | 9 |
| 1.2. | The Indo-European language group | 12 |
| 1.3. | The first six letters of the early futhark found on a bracteate [thin gold medallion] from Vadstena in Sweden | 22 |
| 2.1. | Dialect areas in Anglo-Saxon England | 36 |
| 2.2. | Lines 2677–87 of the manuscript of Beowulf | 39 |
| 2.3. | The Anglo-Saxon futhorc | 42 |
| 2.4. | Part of the runic inscription on the Ruthwell Cross, County Dumfries | 43 |
| 3.1. | Scandinavian settlement in Anglo-Saxon England | 64 |
| 3.2. | The inscribed sundial at Aldbrough, East Riding of Yorkshire | 80 |
| 4.1. | Dialect areas in Middle English | 92 |
| 4.2. | The main distributions of selected forms for the pronoun ‘she’ in later Middle English | 100 |
| 5.1. | Caxton's English: a passage from Caxton's The Myrrour of the World | 142 |
| 6.1. | The opening pages of Richard Hodges, The English Primrose (1644) | 153 |
| 6.2. | The Great Vowel Shift | 156 |
| 6.3. | The Great Vowel Shift | 157 |
| 6.4. | The Great Vowel Shift? | 171 |
| 7.1. | Increasing use of the third-person singular -(e)s in personal letters between 1500 and 1660 | 187 |
| 7.2. | Regional spread of -(e)s in verbs other than have and do | 189 |
| 7.3. | Periphrastic do in affirmative statements, 1500–1710 | 201 |
| 7.4. | Periphrastic do in negative statements, 1500–1710 | 203 |
| 7.5. | Periphrastic do in affirmative statements in personal letters, 1580–1630 | 204 |
| 7.6. | Periphrastic do in affirmative statements in Older Scots, 1500–1700 | 205 |
| 9.1. | Geographical mobility in eighteenth-century Britain | 245 |
| 10.1. | Queen Victoria's Speech to the Houses on Opening Parliament in 1863, translated into the Dorset dialect | 293 |
| 10.2. | ‘Th’ Dickshonary’, by Teddy Ashton | 295 |
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Book title: The Oxford History of the English Language.
Contributors: Lynda Mugglestone - Editor.
Publisher: Oxford University Press.
Place of publication: Oxford, England.
Publication year: 2006.
Page number: vii.
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