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A History of English Language

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Index 436<br />

Pope, M.K., 198<br />

Portmanteau words, 306<br />

Portuguese, 4, 7, 29;<br />

words from, 291;<br />

influence, 228<br />

Porzig, Walter, 42<br />

Postage, cheap, 296<br />

Potter, Simeon, 17<br />

Pound, Louise, 306<br />

Powell, F.York, 114<br />

Powicke, F.M., 129, 156<br />

Prakrit, 24<br />

Prator, C.H., 323<br />

Praz, Mario, 252<br />

Prefixes, 66, 181, 304<br />

Prein, Wilhelm, 252<br />

Prescriptive grammar, beginnings <strong>of</strong>, 278ff.<br />

Preston, Dennis R., 407<br />

Price, H.T., 167, 252<br />

Pride, John B., 17, 349<br />

Priestley, Joseph, 258, 270, 274, 278–80, 283–85<br />

Prins, A.A., 167<br />

Printing, influence <strong>of</strong>, 200<br />

Prioress, Chaucer’s, 141, 156<br />

Progressive passive, 291<br />

Progressive verb forms, 245, 291<br />

Prokosch, E., 41<br />

Pronoun, 59, 161, 242;<br />

agreement in gender, 339;<br />

relative, 244−45<br />

Pronunciation, American, 371, 373;<br />

Shakespeare’s, 234;<br />

<strong>of</strong> Old <strong>English</strong>, 53<br />

Proper names, words from, 306<br />

Proto-Germanic, 32<br />

Provençal, 29<br />

Provençals in England, 131–32<br />

Provence, Eleanor <strong>of</strong>, 131<br />

Provisions <strong>of</strong> Oxford, 133, 137, 139<br />

Prussian, 30<br />

Puerto Rico, emigrants from, 352;<br />

Spanish influence in, 329<br />

Punjabi, 24<br />

Purists, attitude <strong>of</strong>, 393;<br />

efforts <strong>of</strong>, 336<br />

Puttenham, George, 195, 204, 222, 250<br />

Pyles, Thomas, 17, 406<br />

Quakers, 242, 353, 388<br />

Queen’s College, Oxford, 139<br />

Quinton, C.L., 244

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