The Philology of the English Tongue

accent adjectival adjective adverb Alfred Tennyson alliteration ancient Anglian Anglo-Saxon appears Ballad Society become belongs called century character Chaucer collocation compound conjunction consonant dialect distinction elder emphasis English language example expression fact Faerie Queene familiar flexion following quotation French words German Gothic Gothic languages grammatical Greek guage habit Hebrew illustration infinitive inflection instances interjection King Latin Layamon letter literature means metre mind modern English native nature noun observe onomatopoetic original Ormulum orthography participle peculiar period person philological phrasal phrases plural poem poet poetry prefix preposition present preterite pronominal pronoun pronunciation Randle Cotgrave reader rhyme rhythm Robert of Gloucester Roman Saxon seems sense sentence Shakspeare signified sort sound speak speech spelling Spenser substantive syllable symbol-verb symbolic words syntax thing thou tion tone traces translation verb vowel William Cowper writing þæt þat