English Past and Present
by Richard Chenevix Trench
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About this eBook
- Author
- Trench, Richard Chenevix, 1807-1886
- Credits
- Produced by Malcolm Farmer, Amy Cunningham, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PE: Language and Literatures: English
- Subject
- English language -- History
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 20900
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20900
- Release Date
- March 25, 2007
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Transcriber’s Note — ENGLISH PAST AND PRESENT — BY
- 2.RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH, D.D.
- 3.EDITOR’S PREFACE
- 4.PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
- 5.CONTENTS
- 6.ENGLISH PAST AND PRESENT
- 7.I — ENGLISH A COMPOSITE LANGUAGE — FOOTNOTES
- 8.II — GAINS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE — FOOTNOTES
- 9.III — DIMINUTIONS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE — FOOTNOTES
- 10.IV — CHANGES IN THE MEANING OF ENGLISH WORDS — FOOTNOTES
- 11.V — CHANGES IN THE SPELLING OF ENGLISH WORDS — FOOTNOTES
- 12.INDEX OF WORDS — THE END. — Transcription of Phonetic Symbols
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