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a
A.B.C. school
Academy of Natural Sciences
Academy of Philadelphia
accent, American
accusative. See also objective case
ACS. See American Colonization Society
active voice
Adams, John
Adams, John Quincy
Ade, George
adjectives
adverbs
African Americans. See also free blacks
agent
ain’t
Allison, Patrick
America
American Academy of Language
American Colonization Society (ACS)
American Dialect Society
American Dictionary of the English Language (Webster, Noah)
abridgment of
for English market
price and copies
American Ethnological Society
American Etiquette and Rules of Politeness
American Heritage Dictionary
American language
accent
British language compared to
dialects
idiom
uniform national language
American Philological Association
American Spelling Book (Webster, Noah)
Americanisms
The American Magazine
The American Minerva
The American Spelling Book (Webster, Noah)
Amherst College
among, with whom
an
The Analysts Journal
Analytical Outlines of the English Language (Lewis)
Anglo-Saxon (Old English)
unvarnished
verbs
words from
aphorisms
An Appeal to Coloured Citizens of the World (Walker, D.)
Appleton, Nathaniel
Aristotle
Arnold, Benedict
Arrant Pedantry blog
articles, before names
as
as follows
like/as
Associated Press
Atheneaum
Atlantic
Atlas and Argus
attributes
Aurora
Ayres, Alfred
Barlow, Joel
be. See to be
Belles-Lettres Society
between you and I
Bible
examples from
King James Bible
reading
as source
Webster’s Bible, Common Version
Wycliffe’s translation of
Bierce, Ambrose
Bingham, Caleb
biweekly
blab schools
blackboards
Blackstone, William
Blackwood’s
Blair, Francis P.
blog posts
Bloom, Ryan
Book Society
Boston Latin School
Boston Palladium
Bradford, William
A Brief History of Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases (Webster, Noah)
British language
Brown, Goold
Buckminster, Joseph
Bulley, Michael
Bullions, Peter
bully pulpit
Burr, Aaron
Burr, Theodosia
Bush, Sarah
canebrake, tales from
Cardell, William
Carnegie, Andrew
carpetbaggers
case. See also nominative case
dative
definition of
genitive
noun
objective
vocative
Case, Jack
casual speech
Channing, William Ellery
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chicago Daily News
Chilton, Thomas
Chronicle of Higher Education
Clark, Stephen Watkins
Cobb, Lyman
Coleridge, Samuel
College Courant
colloquial style
commands
Commentaries on the Law of England (Blackstone)
Common School Grammar (Fowle)
common schools
comparative linguistics
comparisons
comparatives
phrases
subject of missing verb in
A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language (Webster, Noah)
composition<
br />
conjunctions
connectives
Constitution
Converse, Sherman
Copperud, Roy H.
copyright laws
corduroy roads
Cornish, Samuel
corporal punishment
country words and phrases
A Critical Review of the Orthography of Dr. Webster’s Series of Books for Systematick Instruction in the English Language (Cobb)
The Critic
Crockett, David
Daily Whig
dame school
Darwin, Charles
dative case
Davy Crockett’s Almanack
Day, Benjamin
deprecate, depreciate
descriptive linguists
Dialect Notes
The Dial
diary clubs
Dickens, Charles
Dictionary of American Regional English
Dictionary of the English Language (Johnson)
different than, different from
Dilworth, Thomas
criticism of
influence of
A New Guide to the English Tongue
practice verses
dime novels
direct objects
Dissertations on the English Language (Webster, Noah)
Dodson, Stephen
double negatives
ban on
examples of
Douglas, Stephen
Dracula (Stoker)
dress
drunk
due to
Editor & Publisher
Elements of English Grammar (Cardell)
Elements of Useful Knowledge (Webster, Noah)
The Elements of Style (Strunk)
elevated style
English Grammar, Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners (Murray, L.)
abridged version of
dominance of
improvement on
memorization of
subtitle of
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures (Kirkham)
English language. See also Anglo-Saxon
bad
command of
family of
good
Latin compared to
Webster, Noah, lectures on
English market
errors, grammar
Essentials of English Grammar (Whitney, W.)
etiquette books
etymology. See also parts of speech
euphemisms
Evans, Bergen
Evening Post
everybody
plural pronouns with
they with
Every-Day English (White, R.)
everyone
“Excelsior” (Longfellow)
experience
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