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considered the standard work in the field.  \nA History of the English Language is a comprehensive exploration of the linguistic and cultural development of English, from the Middle Ages to the present day. The book provides students with a balanced and up-to-date overview of the history of the language.  \nThe fifth edition has been revised and updated to keep students up to date with recent developments in the field. Revisions include:  \n• a revised first chapter,‘English present and future’  \n• a new section on gender issues and linguistic change  \n• updated material on African-American Vernacular English  \nA student supplement for this book is available, entitled Companion to A History of the English Language.  \nAlbert C.Baugh was Schelling Memorial Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Thomas Cable is Jane and Roland Blumberg Centennial Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.  \nTHE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND  \nA History of the English Language  \nFifth Edition  \nAlbert C.Baugh and Thomas Cable  \nFirst published 1951 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Second edition 1959  \nThird edition 1978  \nFourth edition published 1993 by Routledge  \nAuthorized British edition from the English language edition, entitled A History of the English Language, Fifth Edition by Albert C.Baugh and Thomas Cable, published by Pearson Education,  \nInc., publishing as Prentice Hall, Inc.  \nCopyright © 2002 Routledge  \n11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE  \nRoutledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group  \nThis edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005.  \n“To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to [http://www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/](http://www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/).”All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission  \nfrom Routledge.  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from  \nthe British Library  \nISBN 0-203-99463-9 Master e-book ISBN  \nISBN 0-415-28098-2 (hbk)  \nISBN 0-415-28099-0 (pbk)  \nContents  \nPreface viii  \n1 English Present and Future 1  \n2 The Indo-European Family of Languages 16  \n3 Old English 38  \n4 Foreign Influences on Old English 67  \n5 The Norman Conquest and the Subjection of English, 1066–1200 98  \n6 The Reestablishment of English, 1200–1500 116  \n7 Middle English 146  \n8 The Renaissance, 1500–1650 187  \n9 The Appeal to Authority, 1650–1800 238  \n10 The Nineteenth Century and After 279  \n11 The English Language in America 331  \nAppendix A Specimens of the Middle English Dialects 387  \nAppendix B English Spelling 399  \nIndex 406  \nMAPS  \nThe Counties of England ii  \nThe Home of the English 42  \nThe Dialects of Old English 48  \nThe Dialects of Middle English 178  \nThe Dialects of American English 356  \nILLUSTRATIONS  \nWilliam Bullokar’s BookeAt Large (1580) 196  \nThe Editors of the New (Oxford) English Dictionary 321  \nExtract from the Oxford English Dictionary 323  \nThe American Spelling Book of Noah Webster 353  \nPreface  \nBefore the present author ever became associated with Albert C.Baugh’s A History of the English Language, several generations of teachers and students had appreciated its enduring qualities. Not least of these, and often remarked upon, was the full attention paid to the historical and cultural setting of the development of the language. This original emphasis has made it possible for subsequent editions to include discussions of current issues and varieties of English in ways that could not have been specifically foreseen in 1935. 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