The Secret Life of Words
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Rasulid Hexaglot
Ray, John; A Collection of English Words Not Generally Used; The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation
Reagan, Ronald
Réard, Louis
Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye
Renaissance
Reynald of Sidon
Rhode Island
Richard I, King of England
Richard II, King of England
Richardson, Samuel
Ripley, Robert
Ritson, Joseph
Roanoke, Virginia
Robert of Ketton
Roberts, Emma: Scenes and Characteristics of Hindostan
Robespierre, Maximilien
Robins, John
Roe, Sir Thomas
Roget, Peter Mark: Thesaurus
Rolfe, John
Rolle, Richard
Roman alphabet
Roman de la Rose
Romani language
Romanticism
Rome (ancient): and Celts; empire; and India
Rosee, Pasqua
Rosier, James: A True Relation of the most prosperous voyage
Ross, Alan
Roth, Philip
Rowlands, Richard (‘Verstegan’): A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence
Royal Society
rubber
Ruffhead, Owen
‘Rule, Britannia’ (song)
Runyon, Damon
Rushdie, Salman: The Moor’s Last Sigh; The Satanic Verses
Ruskin, John
Russia Company
Russian Empire
Russian language: borrowings from
Ruyter, Michiel de
Sade, Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de
Safire, William
St John’s, Newfoundland
St Kitts
Saladin
Salt, Sir Titus
Sandbrook, Dominic
Sandys, George
Sanger, Larry
Sannazzaro, Jacopo
Sanskrit language
Sansovino, Francesco
Santiago de Compostela
Sax, Adolf
Scandinavia
Scheuchzer, John Gasper
Schultz, Howard
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
science
Scientology
Scotland: language and literature; relations with Low Countries
Scott, Sir Walter; Ivanhoe; Rob Roy
Scottish Makars
Scottish Makars
seafaring terms
Sebastian, King of Portugal
Sebastiano del Piombo
Second World War (1939-45)
Seeley, Sir John: The Expansion of England
Sei Shonagon
Seljuks
Semitic languages
Seneca
Settlement, Act of (1701)
Sewall, Hannah
Sewall, Samuel
Sex and the City (TV programme)
Shakespeare, William: addiction to books; history plays; knowledge of Italy and Italian; in national literature; words and language; As You Like It; Cymbeline; Hamlet; Henry IV, Part I,; Henry IV, Part II,; Henry V,; Henry VI, Part I,; Henry VIII; King Lear; Love’s Labour’s Lost; Macbeth; The Merchant of Venice; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Much Ado about Nothing; Pericles; Richard II, 96; Romeo and Juliet; The Taming of the Shrew; The Tempest; Twelfth Night; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Winter’s Tale
Shaw, George Bernard
Shelley, Percy Bysshe; The Cenci; A Defence of Poetry; Prometheus Unbound
Shelta language
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
Sheridan, Thomas
Shetland Islands
Shillibeer, George
shopping
Shorter Oxford Dictionary
Shuster, Joe
Sicily
Sidney, Sir Philip: and Roanoke settlers; travels and borrowings from abroad; An Apology for Poetry; Arcadia
Siegel, Jerome
Singapore
Siraj ud-Daula
Skelton, John
Skinner, Stephen
slang
Slany, John
slavery: in USA; West African
Slavic languages
Sloane, Sir Hans
Smiles, Samuel: Self-Help
Smith, Adam: The Wealth of Nations
Smith, Bruce
Smith, Captain John; A Description of New England; Generall Historie of Virginia
Smith, Logan Pearsall
Smollett, Tobias
Society Small Talk
Sogdian language
South Africa; gold
South Pacific
Spain: Arabic influence; loan words from; in Netherlands; in New World; overseas trade and colonization; relations with England
Spanish Armada (1588)
Spanish Civil War
Spanish language: in USA
Spectator (magazine)
Spencer, Herbert
Spenser, Edmund; The Faerie Queene; The Shepheardes Calender
spices
Spiegelman, Art
sport: jargon
Sprat, Thomas
Staël, Germaine Necker, Baronne de
Starbucks (coffee chain)
Starkey, David
Steiner, George
Stephens, Joanna
Sterne, Laurence: A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy; Tristram Shandy
Stevens, Wallace
Stevenson, Robert Louis; Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Stone, Edmund
Stow, John: A Survey of London
Strabo: Geographica
Strong, Sir Roy
Stubbes, Philip: The Anatomie of Abuses
Stuyvesant, Peter
sugar: cultivation and trade
Sunday Times
surnames; occupational
Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of
Surtees, R. S.
Susan Constant (ship)
Sutcliff, Rosemary: The Eagle of the Ninth
Swedish language: in USA; words from
Swift, Jonathan; Gulliver’s Travels
Swinburne, Algernon Charles
synonyms
Syria
Tacitus
Tagalog language
Taino people and language
Tajiri, Satoshi
Talbot, William Fox
Tasmania
Tasso, Torquato
Tatler, The (magazine)
tea trade
technology: modern; and spread of language
telephones
Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron
terrorism
textiles
Thackeray, William Makepeace; Vanity Fair
theatre and drama
Thiong’o, Ngugi wa
Thirty Years War (1618-48)
Thomas, William: Principal Rules of the Italian Grammar
Thompson, Charles
Thoreau, Henry David; Walden
Thorne, Tony: Shoot the Puppy
Thrale family
Thrale, Hester (Mrs Piozzi)
timekeeping
Tisquantum (Patuxet tribesman)
titles of rank
tobacco: introduced into Europe
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Todd, Henry John
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Tooke, William: View of the Russian Empire
Torrey, Samuel
Tours, battle of (732)
Town and Country Magazine
Toynbee, Arnold
trade
Traditional Black Church (USA)
transition (magazine)
Traske, John
travel: guides and accounts; and national stereotypes; popular; women and
Travellers (itinerant Irish)
Traveller’s Interpreter, The
Trebizond
Trevisa, John
Trollope, Frances
Tupí Indians
Turkic languages
Turn
bull, Sir Richard
Turner, Jack
Twain, Mark
Tyndale, William
typefaces
Tzara, Tristan
‘U’ and ‘non-U’
Ulloa, Francisco de
Umayyad caliphs
Union, Act of (1707)
United States of America: African languages and vernaculars in; contact with Japan; economic dominance; English language in; ethnic and linguistic diversity; formed; modern military terms; modern science in; place names; regional and ethnic tensions; slavery; see also America; American Civil War
Uralic languages
Urban II, Pope
Urdu language
Veblen, Thorstein
Veldener, Johannes
Venezuela
Venice: ghetto
verbs: absorbed
Verne, Jules: Around the World in Eighty Days
Verstegan see Rowlands, Richard
Vesling, Johann: The Anatomy of the Body of Man
Vespucci, Amerigo
Victoria, Queen
Victorianism
Vikings
Virginia,
Virginia
Vives, Juan Luis
Vlax Romani language
Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de; Candide
Vortigern
Waitangi, Treaty of (1840)
Wales: English language in
Wales, Jimmy
Walker, William
Wallach, Jeremy
Waller, Edmund
Walpole, Horace
Walpole, Sir Robert
Wanchese (Native American)
Wandiwash, battle of (1760)
war
Warburton, William
Washington, George
Watling, Thomas
Watts, Isaac
Waymouth, George
Webster, John; The Duchess of Malfi
Webster, Noah
Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language
Wedmore, Treaty of (878)
weight measurement
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of
Wells, H. G.; A Short History of the World; Men Like Gods
Wesley, John
West Africa
West Indies see Caribbean
West Saxon dialect
Whewell, William
Whitaker, Alexander
White, John
White, Richard
White, William and Resolved
Whitman, Walt
Whittington, Sir Richard
Whitworth, George: An Anglo-Indian Dictionary
wigwam words
Wikipedia
Wilde, Oscar
Wilkins, John
Willes, Richard
William I (the Conqueror), King of England
William III (of Orange), King of England, Scotland and Ireland
William of Rubruck
William of Tyre: Chronicon
Williams, Roger: A Key into the Language of America
Williams, Sir Roger: The Actions of the Low Countries
Williamson, Thomas: The East India Vade-Mecum
Willson, James: The Soldier’s Pocket Dictionary
Wilson, Thomas: The Arte of Rhetorique
Winchester, Simon
Winchester cathedral
wine: terms from; trade in
Winslow, Edward: Good Newes from New England
Winthrop, John
Wiseman, Richard: Severall Chirurgicall Treatises
Witherspoon, John
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Wollstonecraft, Mary: Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
women: Dutch; travellers; writers
Wood, Robert: The Ruins of Balbec; The Ruins of Palmyra
Wood, William: New England’s Prospect
Woolf, Virginia; Night and Day; To the Lighthouse
word order
Worde, Wynkyn de
Wordsworth, William; Lyrical Ballads (with Coleridge)
World, The (magazine)
Wright, Joseph: English Dialect Dictionary
Wright, Orville and Wilbur
Wulfstan, Archbishop of York
Wyatt, Edwin
Wyatt, Sir Thomas
Wyche, Peter
Wycherley, William: The Plain Dealer
Wyclif, John
Yi Zong, Emperor of China
Yiddish language
yoga
Yule, Sir Henry, and Arthur Coke Burnell: Hobson-Jobson
Zappa, Frank
Zidane, Zinedine
Ziyad, Tariq Ibn
Index of Words and Terms
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abacus
abalone
abattoir
abdomen
abolition
abomination
abracadabra
abseil
academic freedom
accident
accord
achcha
achtung
acoustic
acumen
adage
Adam’s apple
addict
adding value
ad hoc
ad hominem
ad infinitum
admiral
ad nauseam
adobe
adolescence
adrift
aduana
adventuress
advertisement
advisory
aesthesis
aesthetic
affidavit
aficionado
agent provocateur
aggressive
agitprop
aglow
agnostic
agri turismo
aguardiente
aide-mémoire
AIDS
aïoli
akimbo
akvavit
à la carte
albino
albuginea
album
alchemy
alcoba
alcohol
alcove
ale
alembic
alfresco
algebra
algorithm
alibi
alienation
alkali
allegiance
alleluia
allergy
allure
alma
almanac
almighty
almost
alnager
aloof
alpaca
alpenstock
altimeter
altitude
alumnus/alumni
amadavat
amah
amateur
amaze
ambassador
amber
ambiance
ambulance
ambuscado
amelcorn
Americanism
amok
amour propre
amphibious
ample
ampulla
amusing
anathema
anatomy
anchovy
ancien régime
and
angst
animal magnetism
anime
annus mirabilis
anomalous
anorak
ansatz
anschluss
anthology
anthropology
antibody
anus
anywhen
ao dai
apocalypse
apocrypha
apostle
apparatchik
apparatus
appellat
ion contrôlée
apple
après-ski
apricot
à propos
archaeology
archipelago
architect
area
argent
argument
aristocracy
arm
armada
armadillo
aroma
aromatic
arrival
arsenal
arsenic
arse-ropes
artichoke
artist
artiste
artistic
arugula
ascend
assassin
assault and battery
assegai
assizer
astronomy
ataghan
atmosphere
atonal
atonement
attar
attention
aubergine
auditing
autism
autista
auto-da-fe
autodidact
avalanche
avant-garde
avast
avatar
average
avocado
awesome
awkward
awning
ayah
ayatollah
azure
babachy
baboo
babushka
baby boom
bacon
bacteria
bad (as positive)
baddish
badinage
badlands
badmash
bagel
baile funk
baklava
baksheesh
balaclava
balcony
ballet
balloon
bambino
bamboo
banana
bandanna
bandit
bandwagon
bangle
banian
bankrupt
banquet
banter
banzai
baobab
barbarian
barbecue
bare
barefoot doctor
barista
bar mitzvah
barricade
basin
basset
bastard
bathroom
battalion
bayonet
bayou
bazaar
bazooka
beau monde
beautiful
beautifullest
beauty
béchamel
bedouin
bedspread
bedwynge
beef
beer
Beethovenian
behemoth
bela
bel air
belles assemblés
belles-lettres
belt
beluga
bench
benefactor
ben trovato
ben venuto
beorn
bergschrund
beriberi
berserk
besmirch
betel
betise
betrothed
bezesteen
bhang
bhangra
bickty
bicycle
bigotry
bikini
bildungsroman
billabong
billet doux
billfold
bill of fare
billow
biltong
bindery