Earle
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Backbone
We have now come to the backbone of our subject.
Bilingualism
The bilingualism of King's English.
Compound
When the word “bishopric” was first made, it was made as a compound.
Deflectionize
Deflectionized languages are said to be analytic.
Derival
The derival of e from a.
Dialect
In the midst of this Babel of dialects there suddenly appeared a standard English language.
Differentiate
The word then was differentiated into the two forms then and than.
Divest
The tendency of the language to divest itself of its gutturals.
Divorce
It [a word] was divorced from its old sense.
economy
The position which they [the verb and adjective] hold in the general economy of language.
Flectional
A flectional word is a phrase in the bud.
Fossilized
A fossilized sample of confused provincialism.
Habitat
This word has its habitat in Oxfordshire.
Have
The laws of philology have to be established by external comparison and induction.
Influential
A very influential Gascon prefix.
Influx
The general influx of Greek into modern languages.
Interjection
An interjection implies a meaning which it would require a whole grammatical sentence to expound, and it may be regarded as the rudiment of such a sentence. But it is a confusion of thought to rank it among the parts of speech.
Interjectional
Certain of the natural accompaniments of interjectional speech, such as gestures, grimaces, and gesticulations, are restrained by civilization.
Nounal
Verbs which in whole or in part have shed their old nounal coat.
Nowise
Others whose case is nowise different.
O
We should distinguish between the sign of the vocative and the emotional interjection, writing O for the former, and oh for the latter.
On
They have added the -en plural form on to an elder plural.
Orthographize
In the coalesced into ith, which modern reaction has orthographized to i' th'.
Orthography
When spelling no longer follows the pronunciation, but is hardened into orthography.
Overlive
The culture of Northumbria overlived the term of its political supermacy.
Participle
By a participle, [I understand] a verb in an adjectival aspect.
Presentive
How greatly the word “will” is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries.
Pursue
Men hotly pursued after the objects of their ambition.
Ribald
Ribald was almost a class name in the feudal system . . . He was his patron's parasite, bulldog, and tool . . . It is not to be wondered at that the word rapidly became a synonym for everything ruffianly and brutal.
Sentience
An example of harmonious action between the intelligence and the sentiency of the mind.
Shibboleth
The th, with its twofold value, is . . . the shibboleth of foreigners.
Steep
The learned of the nation were steeped in Latin.
Sympathy
The adverb has most sympathy with the verb.
Symphytism
Some of the phrasal adverbs have assumed the form of single words, by that symphytism which naturally attaches these light elements to each other.
Umlauted
There is no natural connection between umlauted forms and plurality.
Wellhead
Our public-school and university life is a great wellhead of new and irresponsible words.
Yokefellow
The two languages [English and French] became yokefellows in a still more intimate manner.