Growth Structure English Language |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
adjectives adopted adverb alliteration authors back-formations belong Beowulf called century Chaucer classical compounds consonant corresponding curious Danes Danish derived dialect Dictionary Dutch elements Engl England English language especially Euphuism expression fact Fitzedward Hall foreign words formation French words genitive George Eliot German Germanic languages give grammar guage H. L. Mencken Hroðgar ideas important influence instance Keltic later Latin Latin words learned less linguistic lish literary loan-words loans meaning mentioned Middle English Milton Modern English names nation native words natural Norse noun number of words Old English Old Norse ordinary originally Otto Jespersen participle perhaps period phonetic phrases poetical poetry poets preposition pronoun prose relations Scandinavian sense sentences Shakesp Shakespeare signification Similarly singular sometimes sound speak speech stress substantive syllable synonym syntax taken Tennyson tense Thackeray things thou tion tongue verb vocabulary vowel write