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A History of English Language

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Index 445<br />

Verb-adverb combinations, 345<br />

Verbs from French, 173<br />

Vernaculars, problems <strong>of</strong>, 203<br />

Verner, Karl, 22<br />

Verner’s Law, 22, 60<br />

Vickers, Brian, 259, 294<br />

Viereck, Wolfgang, 348, 349<br />

Viëtor, Wilhelm, 252<br />

Vikings, 92<br />

Villey, Pierre, 251<br />

Vincent, Nigel, 68<br />

Vindex Angelicus, 262<br />

Virgil, 206, 209<br />

Virginia, 354–55, 381<br />

Visigoths, 32<br />

Vising, J., 125, 126, 136, 141, 197<br />

Visser, F. T., 17, 252<br />

Volapük, 7<br />

Voltmer, Bruno, 197<br />

Vorlat, Emma, 274<br />

Vortigern, 49<br />

Vowel declension, 57<br />

Vulgar Latin, 29, 79<br />

Wace, 119<br />

Wagenknecht, Edward, 406<br />

Wakelin, Martyn F., 348<br />

Wall,A., 106<br />

Waller, Edmund, 262, 265<br />

Wallis, John, 274, 279<br />

Walloon, 29, 115<br />

Walpole, Horace, 266<br />

Wanderer, The, 70<br />

“War <strong>of</strong> the Theatres,” 223<br />

Ward, William, 280<br />

Warfel, Harry R., 406<br />

Warkentyne, H.J., 331<br />

Watkins, Calvert, 36, 41<br />

Wat Tyler’s rebellion, 148<br />

Weak declension, 57, 58, 160<br />

Weakverbs, 51, 60–61, 162<br />

Weakening <strong>of</strong> final -m, 159<br />

Wearmouth, 85<br />

Weber,Heidi, 17, 328, 349<br />

Webster, Noah, 258, 272, 275, 279, 286, 311, 366 ff., 391, 394<br />

Webster’s spelling book, 358, 371<br />

Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 395<br />

Wedmore, Treaty <strong>of</strong>, 93<br />

Weekley, Ernest, 347, 397<br />

Weiner, E.S.C., 343, 347<br />

Wells, J.C, 324, 373, 382

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