Alphabetical (55 page)

Tschichold, Jan,
291

Tudor England,
49

Tunis,
13

Turkey,
140
,
341

Turkish,
116
,
330

Twain, Mark,
188

Twitter,
104
,
147
,
293–4
;
see also
social media websites

typefaces:
8
,
22
,
67
,
102–3
,
108
,
146–8
,
176
,
262
,
290–3
,
296
; psychology of,
102–3
; Garamond,
108
; medieval French,
108
; Futura,
290

typewriters: QWERTY keyboard,
255–7
,
261–6
,
271
,
293
; keyboard layout,
257
; AZERTY keyboard,
258
; Olivetti,
261–2

umlaut,
327–8
,
331
;
see also
accents

Uncial handwriting,
69–70
,
290

Unifon,
247

Union Jack,
372

upsilon,
113–14
,
188
,
324
,
376

Uralic,
303

Urania,
197

Urban Dictionary,
360–2

US Army,
88
,
355

US Congress,
246

Vail, Alfred,
301

Valmaric,
168

Varro, Marcus Terentius,
397–8

Vatican,
55
,
132

Venetian printers,
292

Venice,
86
,
290–1

Vercelli,
343

vernacular speech,
144

Vesel, Rose,
331

Victoria, Queen
392

Victorian era,
143
,
209
,
278

video conferencing,
170

Vienna, Siege of,
297

Vietnamese language,
330

Vigenère, Blaise de,
55

Viking alphabet,
19
,
71
,
338–9

Vikings, the 71–8,
337–42

Vindolanda,
239

Vinland,
338

Virgil,
276

voice recognition,
7
,
170

Voltaire,
116
,
276

vowels: Great Vowel Shift,
3
,
23
,
42
,
64
,
80
,
108
,
151
,
228
,
311
; shifting,
3
,
81
,
324
; London,
5
,
112
,
325
; alphabets without,
14
; Hebrew,
14
; sounds,
15–17
,
81
,
95
,
111–13
,
130
,
165
,
177
,
193
,
241
,
269
,
274
,
325
; short,
65
; English,
81
; long,
82
; separating,
327
;
see also
dieresis

Voynich manuscript,
172–4

Wahshiyah, Ahmad Bakr ibn,
10–12

Wales,
178
,
381

Walford,
394

Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language
,
233

Walsingham, Sir Francis,
49–50
,
239

Ward, Jamie,
382

Wayne, John,
398

Webb, Harry
see
Richard, Cliff

Webster, Noah, Jr,
247
,
349–62
,
388

Webster's Collegiate
(dictionary),
349
,
355

Wells, H. G.,
184
,
247

Wells, Julia
see
Andrews, Julie

Welsh language,
73
,
178
,
330
,
368

Wenceslas Square,
343

West Africa,
167
,
224

West African peoples,
224

West Side Story
(musical),
313

Western Europe,
20
,
238

Western languages,
238

Wheatstone, Charles,
301–2

Wikoff, Viola,
314

Wiktionary (online dictionary),
360

Williams, William Carlos,
277

Williamson, Peter,
368–9

Williamsport, Pennsylvania,
392

Willis, John,
241

Wilshaw, Francis,
298

Wilson, Colin,
88

Wilson, D. M.,
342
; First Rule of Runo-Dynamics,
342

Wiltshire,
232
,
236

Wisconsin Assembly,
256

Wonder, Stevie,
398

Woodford,
394

Woolworth, F. W. & Co. Ltd,
296

word ladder stories,
408

Word of Mouth
(BBC radio programme),
320
,
360
,
384

Writing Scholar's Companion
,
244

Wycliffe Bible,
279–80

Wyld, Henry,
351

Wynn,
19
,
71–2
,
339

X chromosome,
367
,
370

xi,
113

XX chromosome,
370–1

XY chromosome,
370–1

Y chromosome,
370

Yale University,
300

Yiddish:
161
,
205
,
276
,
285
,
331
; comedy,
276

yogh,
19
,
73–7
,
339

Yorkshire,
5
,
240
,
325

Young, Thomas,
10
,
116

Young Communist League (YCL),
380

Younger Futhark,
342

Youth Hostels Association (YHA),
380–1

YouTube,
163
,
171
,
196
,
399

Yunnan province,
169

Zenodotus,
396–7

Zephaniah, Benjamin,
389

zeta,
108
,
113
,
388

Zimmerman, Robert
see
Dylan, Bob

ZIP codes,
392
;
see also
postcodes