The Secret Life of Words
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Germanic languages
Germany: influence on Coleridge; science and learning
Gibbon, Edward; Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Gilbert, Humphrey
Gildas: De Excidio Britanniae
Gillette, King: The Human Drift
Gilmour, David: The Ruling Caste
Gilpin, William
Giraud, Nicolo
Gladstone, William Ewart
Glazkov, Nikolai
Goa
Goddard, H. H.
Godspeed (ship)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Goidelic languages
Goitein, Shelomo
Gold Coast
Gosson, Stephen: Playes Confuted in Five Actions
Gould, Robert
Gower, John; Confessio Amantis
Grand Tour
Grant, Anthony
Great Exhibition (London)
Greek language: influence; prefixes and suffixes; words
Green, John
Greenblatt, Stephen
Greene, Robert
Gregory I (the Great), Pope
Gregory XV, Pope
Grenada: invasion (1983)
Grenville, Sir Richard
Grimm, Jacob
Guaraní languages
Guevara, Che
Guiccioli, Contessa
Guinea (West Africa)
Gullah creole
Gutenberg, Johannes
Guthrum, King of the East Angles
Guugu Yimidhirr language (Australia)
Gypsies
Habits of Good Society, The
Haeckel, Ernst
Hakluyt, Richard; Principall Navigations; Voyages
Halfpenny, William
Ham, son of Noah
Hamilton, Alexander
Hanoverian dynasty
Harbin, Robert: Paper Magic
Hardy, Thomas; A Pair of Blue Eyes
Harold Godwinsson, King of England
Harriot, Thomas; Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
Harris, James
Harris, Rolf
Harrison, William: The Description of England
Harvey, Gabriel
Hasan i Sabbah
Hashshashin
Hawaii
hawking terms
Hawkins, John
Hawkins, William
Hay, John
Hearn, Lafcadio
Hebrew language: borrowings from
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Heidegger, Martin
Hemans, Felicia: ‘Superstition and Revelation’
Hemingway, Ernest; Death in the Afternoon
Henriette-Marie, Queen of Charles II
Henry I, King of England
Henry II, King of England
Henry III, King of England
Henry IV, King of England (Henry of Lancaster)
Henry V, King of England
Henry VII, King of England
Henry VIII, King of England
Henry the Navigator, Prince of Portugal
Henryson, Robert
heraldic terms
Herbert, Frank: Dune novels
Herbert, Sir Thomas: Travels
Herodotus
Herschel, Sir John
Heywood, Thomas: An Apology for Actors
Higden, Ranulph; Polychronicon
Hobbes, Thomas
Hoby, Thomas
Hoccleve, Thomas
Hodgson, William: Errors in the Use of English
Hogarth, William
Hong Kong
Hoobler, Dorothy and Thomas
Hooke, Robert: Micrographia
Hopkins, Gerard Manley
Horace: Ars Poetica
Hotten, John Camden
Hubbard, L. Ron
Hudson, Kenneth
Huggins, William
Hughes, Geoffrey
Hughes, Robert
Huguenots
Hume, David
Humphrey of Toron
Humphries, Barry
Hundred Years War (1337-1453)
Hungarian language
hunting terms
Huxley, Aldous
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Huygens, Christiaan
Huysmans, Joris-Karl: À Rebours
Ibn Wahab
Ibrahim, Badr al-Din: dictionary
Illustrated London News
immigration: effect on Britain
Independence, American Declaration of (1776)
India: British rule in; English language in; English trade and relations with; food; scholars’ interest in languages; Western interest in; words from
Indian languages: influence in Britain
Indian Mutiny (1857-8)
Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages
Indo-Pacific languages
Indonesia
industrial revolution
inflexional endings
Ingrams, Davy
Inkhorn controversy, the
Internet
Inuit languages and culture
Ireland: English language in
Irving, Washington; Astoria
Isabella, Queen of Spain
Isabella of Angoulême, Queen of King John
Isidore of Seville, St
Islam see Muslims
Israel, Jonathan
Italian: as epithet
Italian language: borrowings from
Italic languages
Italy: influence in England; Renaissance; unification
Jamaica
James I, King of England (James VI of Scotland); ‘A Counterblaste to Tobacco’
James II, King of England
James, Henry
James, Lawrence
Jameson, Fredric
Jamestown
Japan: European acquaintance with; exclusiveness; modernization; in Second World War; USA opens up; as world power
Japanese language: borrowings from; borrowings from other languages; isolation
Jardine, Lisa
Jardine Matheson (company)
jargon
Jefferson, Thomas
Jennings, Francis
Jerusalem
Jesuits
Jesus
Jevons, William Stanley: The Coal Question
Jewett, Sarah Orne
Jews: status in Spain; see also Hebrew language; Yiddish language
Johanssen, Wilhelm
John, King of England
Johnson, Robert
Johnson, Samuel: on advertisement; on Chesterfield; on Dryden; Fanny Burney meets; and Hester Thrale’s marriage to Piozzi; linguistic principles; on luxury; Noah Webster disparages; on Shakespeare’s punning; uses word ‘duvet’; on word ‘glen’; A Dictionary of the English Language; revised; Irene
Jolas, Eugene
Jones, Hugh
Jones, Sir William
Jonson, Ben: on Shakespeare’s ‘small Latine and lesse Greeke’; words; Bartholomew Fair; Eastward Ho (with Marston and Chapman); The English Grammar; Every Man in his Humour; The Poetaster; Timber, or Discoveries; Volpone
Josselyn, John: New England’s Rarities
joual patois (Canada)
Jourdain, John
journalese
Joyce, James: Finnegans Wake
Judt, Tony
Jung, Carl Gustav
Kaempfer, Engelbert: History of Japan
Kanagawa, Treaty of (1854)
Kant, Immanuel
Keats, John
Keay, John
Kepler, Johannes
Kerouac, Jack: The Dharma Bums
Kersey, John
Kettering, Charles
Kettner, Auguste: Book of the Table
Khan, Ghulam Husain
Khomeini, Ayatollah
Khwarizimi, Muhammad ibn Musa al-
Kilkenny, Statute of (1366)
Kinglake, A. W.
Kipling, Rudyard; Kim
Kirby, Jack
Kirke, Edward
Knapp, Peggy
La Bruyère, Jean de
lager
Lanchester, John: The Debt to Pleasure
Landino, Cristoforo
Lane, Ralph
Langland, William; Piers Plowman
language: character and structure; diversity and mutual incomprehension; families and groups; guide books
La Reynière, Alexandre de
las Casas, Bartolomé de
Lascelles, Richard: A Compleat Journey Through Italy
Lass, Roger
Latin language: borrowings from; as language of government; Lydgate and; in official letters; in Old English; persists after Roman departure; prefixes; tags; university teaching in; words in Germanic languages
Laud, William, Archbishop of Canterbury
law: in England; French language in England
Lawrence, D. H.; Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Layamon: Brut (poem)
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret): Vers une architecture
Lee, Bruce
Lee, Stan
Leeuwenhoek, Antony van
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
Lenin, Vladimir I.
Lerer, Seth
Leroy, Louis
L’Estrange, Hamon; The Reign of King Charles
Levant: trade with England
Levant Company
Lever, Ralph
Lewis, C. S.
Lewis, Meriwether, and William Clark
Lincoln, Abraham
Lindisfarne
Lipps, Theodor
literacy: levels of
Livingstone, David
loan words: acceptance; in other languages
Locke, John; An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Lockyer, Charles
London, Great Fire (1666)
London Company
London Stock Exchange
Louis XIV, King of France
Louisiana
Lowth, Robert: A Short Introduction to the English Language
Lumsden, Harry
Lusignan, Hugh de
Luther, Martin
luxury goods
Lydgate, John
Lyell, Sir Charles: Principles of Geology
Lyte, Henry: Herball
McArthur, Tom
Macau
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Baron
Machiavelli, Niccolò: Il principe
Mackenzie, Henry: The Man of the World
McLuhan, Marshall
McWhorter, John
Madison, James
Magellan, Ferdinand
Magna Carta
Magyar language
Makin, Bathsua
Malay language
Malory, Thomas: Le Morte d’Arthur
Maltby, Richard
management-speak
Mandarin language: English influences in
Mandeville, Sir John; The Travels
manners (social)
Manteo (Native American)
Maoris
Mappa Mundi (Hereford)
Markham, Gervase: The English Housewife
Marlborough, John Churchill, 1st Duke of
Marlowe, Christopher: Dr Faustus; Edward II
Marryat, Frederick
Marston, John: Eastward Ho (with Jonson and Chapman); Histriomastix; The Insatiate Countess
Martineau, Harriet
Marvell, Andrew: ‘The Character of Holland’
Marx, Karl; The Communist Manifesto (with Engels)
Marxism
Mary I (Tudor), Queen of England
Mary II (Stuart), Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland
Mary, Queen of Scots
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Massachusetts Spy
Massialot, François: Le Cuisinier roial et bourgeois
Massinger, Philip: The Unnatural Combat
Materazzi, Marco
Matteis, Nicola
May, Robert: The Accomplisht Cook
Mayflower (ship)
medical terms
Medici, Catherine de’, Queen of France
medicines: quack
Mediterranean: English trade in
Mège-Mouriès, Hippolyte
Meirelles, Fernando
Melville, Herman
Mencken, H. L.
Mendoza, Gonzalez de
Mesmer, Anton
Mexico
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Michelet, Jules
middle classes
Middle English
Middleton, Thomas: Women Beware Women
military terms: modern; under Normans
Mill, James: The History of British India
Milton, John; Areopagitica; Paradise Lost
missionaries (Christian): in China; in India
Mitford, Nancy
Modern English (Early Modern English)
Modernism
Moldova
Moluccas, the
Monardes, Nicolas
Montagné, Prosper
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley
Montaigne, Michel de
Montemayor, Jorge de: Diana
Montgolfier brothers (balloonists)
Montserrat
Moor, Edward: Hindu Pantheon
Moore, Francis; Travels into the Inland Parts of Africa
Moore, John: Mordaunt
Moore, Thomas; Lalla Rookh
More, Sir Thomas
Moreau, Gustave
Morier, James: The Adventures of Hajji Baba
Morris, William
Morrison, Jim
Moryson, Fynes
motoring
Moxon, Elizabeth: English Housewifery
Mugglestone, Lynda
Mughal Empire
Muhammad the Prophet
Mulcaster, Richard
Mundy, Peter
Münster, Sebastian: Cosmographia
Murray, James
Muscovy Company
music: Afro-American; popular; word borrowings
Muslims and Islam; see also Arabic language
Nabokov, Vladimir: Bend Sinister; Lolita; Pnin
Nahuatl language
Nanking, Treaty of (1842)
Nantes, Edict of: revoked (1685)
Nature (magazine)
nautical terms
Neisser, Albert
Nelson, Horatio, Viscount
Netherlands (Low Countries): overseas trade; Spanish in; see also Dutch, the
Nevis
New England
New Guinea
New Zealand
Newman, John Henry, Cardinal
Newton, Sir Isaac; Opticks; Principia Mathematica
Nicholas, Thomas: The Pedigree of the English People
Nicot, Jean
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Nonsense of Common-Sense (magazine)
Norman Conquest
Normandy: seized by Philip Augustus
Normans
Norse language
Norse literature
North-West Passage
Northern Homilies
Norwegian language: in USA; words from
novel: rise of
Nusair, Musa Ibn
O’Brien, Robert: This is San Francisco
Ohrwurm
Old English language
Oliphant, Kington
Omai (Tahitian)
online language
opium trade
Opium War, Second (1856-60)
Orderic Vitalis
Ormulum, The
Orwell, George; Burmese Days; ‘Politics and the English Language’; ‘Shooting an Elephant’
Ostler, Nicholas; Empires of the Word
Oswald, Archbishop of York
Ottoman Empire: ends (1922)
Ovid; Metamorphoses
Owen, Sir Richard
Owenson, Sydney (Lady Morgan): The Missionary
Oxford English Dictionary (OED): compiled; definitio
ns
Ozick, Cynthia
Palacios Rubios, Juan López de
Palsgrave, John: Lesclaircissement de la langue francoyse
panoramas
Paoli, Pasquale
paper: manaufacture
Park, Mungo: Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa
Park, Roswell: A Hand-Book for American Travellers
Parke, Robert
Parsons, Talcott
Pascal, Blaise
Pater, Walter: Studies in the History of the Renaissance
Paterson, Don
Paynell, Thomas
Peel, Sir Robert
Pegolotti, Balduccio
Peking, Convention of (1860)
Peninsular War (1808-14)
Pepys, Samuel
Percy, Thomas: Miscellaneous Pieces Relating to the Chinese; Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
Pérez, Antonio
Perry, Commodore Matthew
Persian language and culture
Peru
Peter of Cluny: The Abominable Heresy or Sect of the Saracens
Petrarch, Francesco
Petronius
Philip II, King of Spain
Philip Augustus, King of France
Philippines
Phillips, Edward
Phillips, Melanie
Phipps, Constantine, 2nd Baron Mulgrave
photography
Picts
pidgin English
Pikestaff, Peter
Pilgrim Fathers
Piozzi, Gabriel
piracy
Piso, Willem
Pius V, Pope
Pizarro, Francisco
place names
Plassey, battle of (1757)
Plath, Sylvia
Pliny the Elder
Pocahontas (Matoaka)
Pococke, Edward: Specimen Historiae Arabum
Pococke, Richard: Description of the East
Poitiers, battle of (1356)
Polish language
politics: language
Polo, Marco
Pomaine, Edouard
Ponce de Leon, Jean
Pondicherry, India
Pontoppidan, Erich: Natural History of Norway
Pope, Alexander: Dunciad; The Rape of the Lock
Portugal: colonization of South Africa; early relations with Japan; failed invasion of Morocco (1578); in India and Far East; loan-words from; overseas trade
potatoes: introduced into Europe
Powhatans
Practical Guide series (travel books)
Preston, Thomas: A Dictionary of Daily Blunders
Price, Owen: The Vocal Organ
Pricke of Conscience, The (attrib. Richard Rolle)
Pring, Martin
printing
privateering
Protestantism
Provisions of Oxford
psychology
publishing see books and publishing
Purchas, Samuel
Puritans, Puritanism
Puttenham, George: The Arte of English Poesie
Qian Long, Emperor of China
Quakers
Quarterly Review
Quebec, Canada
Qur’an
Rabelais, François
Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford
Raleigh, Sir Walter