INDEX
| Ælfric, Abbot 49–52, 57, 105, 336, 416 | |
| Æthelwold, Bishop 49, 54 | |
| a in path, fast 290, 308–10, 313–14 | |
| AB Language 109–10 | |
| accent see pronunciation, received pronunciation | |
| accent levelling 371 | |
| accommodation 130, 140–1, 335, 336, 397 | |
| Addison, J. 241, 268, 346 | |
| adjectives, inflection of 18–19, 20, 33, 45–6, 58, 96, 130 | |
| adverb 283 | |
| Africa 343, 344 | |
| African-American English 355, 382 | |
| Africaans 298, 384, 396, 424 | |
| age, and language 4, 7, 277, 290, 291 | |
| Alfred, King 34, 38, 44–5, 47, 48, 67–8, 77, 415, 416 | |
| Algonquian 345 | |
| alliteration 38, 48 | |
| alphabet 34, 41, 43, 44 | |
| America 420 | |
| American Dialect Society 308 | |
| American English 2, 7–8, 19, 71, 129, 148, 279, 280, 284, 298, 300, 301, 301, 314, 316–17, 324, 342, 343, 345, 349, 351, 352, 361, 362, 364, 366–7, 369, 370, 375, 376, 381–2, 383, 397 see also General American | |
| Ancrene Riwle 88, 89–90, 94 | |
| Ancrene Wisse 88–90, 101, 109, 416 | |
| Androcentric Rule 259 | |
| Angles 27, 35, 91 | |
| Anglian 35–7, 38, 54, 90, 91, 95 | |
| Anglo-Frisian 27, 30 | |
| Anglo-Norman 67, 84, 199 | |
| Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 34–5, 40, 55, 77, 416 | |
| Anglo-Saxons 10, 20, 23, 26, 27, 28, 30, 34, 35, 62, 63, 65, 363 | |
| Arabic 148, 339, 354, 384 | |
| Arawak 343 | |
| archaism 220, 228–30, 235, 262, 264 | |
| Armenia 11, 12, 16 | |
| Asia Minor 11 | |
| Avestan 11, 12 | |
| Augustine, Saint 40 | |
| aureate diction 124–5 | |
| Austen, J. 249, 278 | |
| Australia 148, 361, 372, 374, 375, 386, 388, 423 | |
| Australian English 299, 301, 400, 420 | |
| auxiliary verbs 17, 149, 180, 184, 186, 190, 197–9, 207, 260–1, 262, 283, 284, 329 see also do | |
| Ayenbite of Inwyt 99 |
| back-formation 300 | |
| back-spellings 154 | |
| Bacon, R. 68 | |
| Baltic languages 11, 12, 15 | |
| Barnes, W. 285, 292–3 | |
| Barbour, J. 129 | |
| Battle of Maldon, The 53–4 | |
| Bavarian 25 | |
| BBC 3, 365, 376, 379, 424 see also broadcasting and regional English 410 | |
| BBC Voices 2005, 3, 332, 404, 428 | |
| Bede, Venerable 34–5, 37, 40–1, 61–2, 67, 335, 415, 416 | |
| Bedfordshire, dialect of 291, 325 |
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Publication year: 2006.
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