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264 Notes to pages 116–27
19 Campbell 1776: 351–3, 366.
20 Cf. Leonard 1962: 154–60.
21 Lowth 1763.
22 Murray 1795; Murray 1799 .
23 Harris 1751: 148. This was a belief that stemmed from Ancient Rome.
24 Buchanan 1767: ix.
25 Cf. Leonard 1962: 189.
26 Lowth 1763.
27 Lowth 1763: 85–9.
28 Cf. Tieken-Boon van Ostade 2002: 463.
29 Lass 1999.
30 Burchfield 1985: 173.
31 Burridge and Florey 2002.
32 E.g. Funk and Wagnalls; cf. Stockwell and Minkova 2001: 191f.
33 See Wolfram and Fasold 1974 for a discussion of ‘superstandard forms’ of language.
34 Lowth 1763: v–vi.
35 Burridge 2005: 162–4.
36 Bolinger 1980; Cameron 1995.
37 The Washington Post, 13 January 1992, p. D5 and reprinted in The Age.
38 Wardhaugh 1999: 182.
39 Cf. Burridge and Florey 2002.
40 Malcolm Whiffin, letter to the ABC, 21 March 1996.
41 Douglas 1966: 189.
42 Douglas 1966: 193.
6 TABOO, NAMING AND ADDRESSING
1 Keesing and Fifi?i 1969: 159, writing of Kwaio culture (Kwaio is an Austronesian
language spoken in Malaita).
2 National Geographic: 172, no. 6, December 1987. Today there are many non-
Gullah incomers.
3 Frazer 1911: 389.
4 Also known in Cornwall as Terry Top, in Suffolk as Tom Tit Tot, in Ireland as Trita-Trot,
in Scotland as Whuppity Stoorie, and as Ricdin-Ricdon in France.
5 Kinship terminology: ego is a given individual designated as the starting point in
genealogical reckoning; lineal kin those in the same line of descent as ego;
collateral kin are of the same generation; consanguineal kin are blood relations;
affinal kin are related by marriage; parallel cousins are traced through a related
parent of the same sex (father’s brother, mother’s sister); cross cousins are
offspring of father’s sister or mother’s brother.
6 Ernest W. Lee, speaking of Roglai (an Austronesian language spoken in Vietnam),
quoted in Simons 1982: 195.
7 Macbeth.
8 Dixon 1980: 28f, 98f.
9 Keesing and Fifi?i 1969: 157.
10 Simons 1982: 158.