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Academy adjective American English aphesis become British Cambridge century changed CHAPTER Charles Talbut Onions Chaucer colloquial compounds consonants Craigie Danelaw denoting derived diphthongs Dryden Dutch edition Elizabethan enclosure England English Dialect English Grammar English Language Eric Partridge etymology example expressions ford German Greek Harold Orton Henry Indo-European inflexions Italian Jespersen John King land later Latin learning linguistic lish literary literature living London Allen meaning Middle English Modern English mother names native natural North nouns observe Old English Old Norse Otto Jespersen Oxford Dictionary Oxford English Dictionary phonetic Place-Names prefixes preposition pronounced pronunciation prose reader recorded Saxons Scandinavian Scottish semantic sense sentence Shakespeare Sir William Craigie slang Society Spanish speak speaker speech spelling spoken stress substantive suffix syllable things tion To-day tongue University Press usage variant vary verb village vocabulary volumes West William words writing York