The Sources of Standard English

London: MacMillan & Co, page v

THE SOURCES

OF

STANDARD ENGLISH

BY

T. L. KINGTON OLIPHANT, M.A.

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1873

CONTENTS
CHAPTER		PAGE
	Preface	vii
	Contents	xiii
	Chapter I - English in its Earliest Shape	1
	Chapter II - The Old and Middle English	35
	Chapter III - The Rise of the New English	182
	Chapter IV - The Inroad of French Words into England	215
	Chapter V - The New English	253
	Chapter VI - Good and Bad English in 1873	322
	Chapter VII - Twelve Hundred Years of English	349
	Index	371
	Educational Books	438

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