The Philology of the English Tongue

accent adjectival adjective adverb Alfred Tennyson alphabet ancient Anglo-Saxon appears become called Canterbury Tales century character Chaucer cloth College collocation compound conjunction consonant Danish dialect distinction Dutch Edition elder England English language example expression fact Faery Queene familiar fcap flexion following quotation French language French words German Gothic Gothic languages grammatical Greek guttural habit Hebrew High Dutch History illustration infinitive inflections instances interjection John John Keble King Latin Layamon letter literature means mind modern Moso-Gothic native nature noun observe old Saxon original Ormulum orthography Oxford participle peculiar person philology phrasal phrase plural poet poetry preposition present preterite pronoun pronunciation rendered rhyme rhythm Sanskrit Saxon seems sense sentence Shakspeare signifies sort sound speak speech spelling Spenser substantival substantive syllable symbol-verb symbolic words syntax termination thing thou tion traces translation verb vowel writing written