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  • T.2. Essays by linguists and men of letters 1858-1964
  • Saxon-English / Charles Dickens
  • Words, logic and grammar / Henry Sweet
  • English rational and irrational / Fitzedward Hall
  • Slang in America / Walt Whitman
  • General explanations / J.A.H. Murray
  • A plea for speech nationalisation / George Bernard Shaw
  • The society's work / Robert Bridges
  • Broadcast English / A. Lloyd James
  • Needed words / Logan Pearsall Smith
  • Language / Edward Sapir
  • The structure of learned words / Leonard Bloomfield
  • The value of place-name study / Eilert Ekwall
  • The interinanimation of words / I.A. Richards
  • Slang / Eric Partridge
  • The social significance of differences in language practice and the obligation of the schools / C.C. Fries
  • Politics and the English language / George Orwell
  • English verb inflection / Bernard Bloch
  • English or American? / H.L. Mencken
  • A multiply ambiguous adjectival construction in English / R.B. Lees
  • Introduction from The pronunciation of English in the United States / H. Kurath, R.I. McDavid
  • The lexicographer's unesay chair / James Sledd
  • Words / Anthony Burgess