THOMAS PYLES
Selected Essays on English Usage
edited
by
John Algeo
Contents:
Part 1- 0rthoepia Classica. The Pronunciation of Latin Learned
Loanwords and Foreign Words in Old English. Tempest in Teapot: Reform in
Latin Pronunciation. The Pronunciation of Latin in English: A Lexicographical
Dilemma. Part 2- De Temporibus et Moribus. That Fine Italian
A
in American
English. Subliminal Words are Never Finalized. "Task Force" Makes
"Breakthrough." Inkhornisms, Fustian, and Current Vogue Words. The English of
VIPs. The Auditory Mass Media and U. Part 3- Semantica et Etymologia.
Innocuous Linguistic Indecorum : A Semantic Byway. Bollicky Naked. Ophelia's
"Nothing." Part 4- 0nomastica. · Dan Chaucer. British Titles of Nobility and
Honor in American English. Onomastic Individualism in Oklahoma. Bible Belt
Onomastics; or, Some Curiosities of Antipedobaptist Nomenclature. Part
5- Pseudodoxia Epidemica Unguistica. Linguistics and Pedagogy: The Need for
Conciliation. The Role of Historical Linguistics. English Usage: The Views of the
Literati. Dictionaries and Usage. Sweet Are the Usages of Diversity.
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