Read The Adventure of English Online
Authors: Melvyn Bragg
The Adventure of English (41 page)
Queen's Men
racism
Raj
Raleigh, Walter
Ralph Roister Doister
Rasta
The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye
(Caxton translation)
Renaissance.
See also
Shakespeare, William
dialects and
dictionaries
imported vocabulary
Inkhorn Controversy
poetry
theater
Richard II,
Richardson, Samuel
The Rights of Man
(Paine)
The Rivals
(Sheridan)
Robinson Crusoe
(Defoe)
Robison, John
Roget, Peter Mark
Roman alphabet
Roman Catholic Church
Alfred's Latin-English translations
arrival in England
book-burning
Council of Constance (1414)
English and
power of
Tyndale and
Wycliffe and
Romance languages
Roman Empire
Romany words
The Routes of English
(radio)
Roy, Rammohan
Royal Society
rude words
The Rudiments of English Grammar
(Priestley)
Rules to be Observed by the Natives of Scotland for attaining a just Pronunciation of English
(Walker)
runes
Russian
Sabir
St. Kitts
Sanskrit
Santa Fe trail
Savage, Richard (Iscariot Hackney)
Saxons
Schleyer, Johann Martin
science
Scotland
Scots in America
Select Society (Edinburgh)
“Sermo Lupi” (Wulfstan)
Shakespeare, William
Antony and Cleopatra
censorship of
education
Hamlet
Henry V
knave insults
life of
The Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Othello
sonnets
The Tempest
use of dialects
use of swear words
words from
Shaw, George Bernard
Shepherd's Play
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
Sheridan, Thomas
Sherwood, Martha
Short Introduction to English Grammar
(Lowth)
Sidney, Philip
Sigismund, Emperor, King of Hungary
Signet Office
Singapore/Singlish
slang
slavery
Smellie, William
Smith, Adam
Smith, William
Smith, William (captain)
soaps (television)
sonnets
South Africa
Spain
Spanish Armada
spelling
spelling bees
Spenser, Edmund
spirituals
Squanto
Standard English
black English
vs.
Chancery and
dialects
Great Vowel Shift (GVS)
Henry V and
plurals
printing press and
spelling
Tamperers and
Stratford-upon-Avon (England)
Strauss, Levi
stress
“subject-matter,”
sugar
Sullivan's Island (South Carolina)
“Sumer is icumen in” (song)
surnames
swear words.
See also
rude words
Swift, Jonathan
syllables
synonyms
The Table Alphabeticall
(Cawdrey)
Tall Talk
Tamil
Tamperers
technology
television
The Tempest
(Shakespeare)
1066 and All That
Text English
Thanksgiving
theater
The Times
(London, India)
Todd, Mike
Tooke, John Horne
Tower of Babel
trade
French and
India
slave
and spread of English
Vikings and
Treatise on the Lowland Dialect of Scotland
(Douglas)
Trevisa, John
Tristram Shandy
(Sterne)
Troilus and Criseyde
(Chaucer)
Troyes, Treaty of (1420)
Twain, Mark
Tyler, Wat
Tyndale, William
Ulstermen
Uncle Remus stories
Uranus
van Buren, Martin
Vaux, James Hardy
verb-to-noun conversions
Victoria, Queen
Vikings
Danes
influence on English place and family names
Norwegians
Old Norse
words from
“virtue,”
Volapuk
Voyages
(Hakluyt)
Wace (poet)
Walcott, Derek
Wales/Welsh
Walker, John
Waller, Edmund
“Waltzing Matilda” (Patterson)
Warner, Thomas
Watt, James
Webster, Noah
Weever, John
Welsh.
See
Wales/Welsh
West African languages
western frontier.
See
American western frontier
West Indies
African languages in
creole
English dialects in
pidgin
sugar
words from
White Tower (London)
Whitman, Walt
Wigton (England)
Wilberforce, William
Wilde, Oscar
Wilkins, John
William I, King, the Conqueror
William of Malmesbury
William of Nassington
Wilson, Thomas
Wilson, Woodrow
Witherspoon, John
Wodehouse, P. G.
Wolsey, Cardinal
Wood, William
word order
Wordsworth, William
World War I
writing
alphabets
importance of
and speech, gap between
spelling
Wulfstan, Archbishop
Wyatt, Thomas
Wycliffe, John
Yiddish
Yorkshire English
Zamenhof, L. L.