Words: For Robert Burchfield's Sixty-fifth BirthdayEric Gerald Stanley, T. F. Hoad Boydell & Brewer, 1988 - Počet stran: 198 Essays concentrating on the uses and histories of English words, mainly in the modern period. Contributions vary in focus including work on the development on individual words, lexicography, British and overseas English dialects, and usage in the earlier and later Modern English period. |
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For Robert Burchfield | 1 |
Irish Adoptions in the English of Tipperary ca 1432 | 37 |
a Note on the Early Naming of Kinds at | 69 |
the First HalfCentury | 91 |
Devy or Deny? | 121 |
The New Vocabulary of English | 143 |
Words from A Supplement to Dr Harriss Dictionary | 163 |
Provenance and Persistence of Standard and Literary Forms | 185 |
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