A History of English Language

Index 417
East Africa, English language in, 325
East Anglia, 50, 93, 99, 353
East Franconian, 34
East Germanic, 32
East Midland dialect, 189, 411–14
East Slavic, 31
Eastern New England dialect, 379
Ebbitt, Wilma R., 395
Eble, Connie, 348
Ecclesiastical words, 86, 169
Edda, 33
Edington, 93
Edmund, King, 93
Education, influence of, 201
Edward the Confessor, 109–10
Edward the Elder, 94
Edward I, 133, 137
Edward II, 148
Edward III, 141, 148
Edward IV, 116
Egbert, King, 50
Efik, influence of, 329
Einenkel, E., 104
either and neither, 360
Ekwall, E., 75, 76, 96, 106, 188, 198, 236, 241, 252, 373
Elamite, 25
Electricity, words relating to, 298
Elene, 71
Eliason, Norman E., 406
Ellis, A.J., 137, 236, 334
Elyot, Sir Thomas, 204, 205, 206, 207, 214, 216, 217, 221, 223, 225, 229, 230, 249
Emerson, O.F., 17, 148, 266, 398
English, characteristics of, 10–15;
cosmopolitan vocabulary of, 11;
future of, 5;
origin of name, 50;
as a world language, 7;
importance of, 3;
in the Empire, 319ff.;
in Africa, 321ff.;
in Australia, 319;
in Canada, 331;
in the Caribbean, 328;
in New Zealand, 319;
in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, 327;
in South Asia, 325;
in the law courts, 149;
in the schools, 146;
influences at work on, 2;
knowledge of among the upper class, 121;
periods of, 52;
proclamation of Henry III, 137;