but
cafetorium
California Shift
camcorder
can
can I get a…
canine
cannot
canny
can’t
Canterbury Tales, The (Chaucer)
Cantor, Eddie
cap
Carroll, Lewis
Casablanca (film)
cash assistance
cat
caught
caveman
Caxton, William
celibacy
cellular phone, cell phone
Celtic people
Charles II, king of England
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chekhov, Anton
childhood
Chinese
Chinese food
chocoholic
chortle
clergyman
Cleveland
clockwise
comfort
commodity
compact
compensate
compounds
contemplate
contractions
contronyms
cool, coolness
Cooperative Principle
copter
corn
cot
cough
could
Counterexpectation
couth
credit
Creole
crippled
crossword puzzle
crumb
Crystal, Ben
Crystal, David
cunnan, cunning
cupboard
curiosity
curt
cut
cute
cut off
Cuvier, Georges
cyber-, cyberattacks, cybernetics
daisy, day’s eye
damn
damnation
darn
Darwin, Charles
data, data scientist
daughter
daunt
Davis, Sammy, Jr.
decimate
Declaration of Independence
der, die, and das
derrière
despicable
destruction
Detroit
dialects
Dick Van Dyke Show, The (TV show)
dictionaries
Dictionary of Modern English Usage (Fowler)
did
die
differently abled
digel
disabled
discharge
dishonest
dived, dove
does
Does he drink?
dog
done
do not, don’t
down
dried-dried fish
Dr. Kildare (TV show)
duce
Duchenne laughter
dusting
e, silent
Early Middle English
Early Modern English
earnest
Easing
East Asian languages
-ed
ee
eld
electrocute
Eliot, George
emoticons
-en
English
changes from Beowulf to Shakespeare
changes since Shakespeare
enk, enough
entrance, entry
epic fail
equable
-er
er, pronounced oy
eternal damnation
étoile
euphemisms
even
exclamation points
exemplary
exquisite
FACE
Acknowledgment
Counterexpectation
Easing
emoticons and
Factuality
humanity and
lesson of
like and
facsimile
Factuality
fail, failure
false friends
fantastic
fast
Faylen, Frank
feast
feel, feeling
fellow
festive
field
fine
Finney, Jack
fireman
first
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
flat
flesh
flood
flush
food
foot
forecastle
forehead
Forever Amber (Winsor)
forget about it
forsooth
forty
fowl
Fowler, H. W.
“Frankfurter Sandwiches” (song)
free
French
French fry
fruit
fuel
future tense
Game of Thrones (TV show)
gelic
generosity
generous
gentleman
gently
genuinely
German
ghostly
Gilman, Albert
Giotto
girl
go
good
good-bye
good/food problem
grammar
grammar. See also prefixes; suffixes; and specific parts of speech, verb tenses, and words
blackboard
Modern Family and
Vikings and
words as (grammatical markers, grammar words)
grammaticalization
Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald)
Great Vowel Shift
Greek
Greenwich
Grice, Paul
grocery
Gulliver’s Travels (Swift)
gunshot
habit
hablar, habló, hablaba
hale, hall
hale and hearty
ham
hamburger
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
handicapped
hangry
Harper, Valerie
Harrison, Benjamin
haunt
have
haven’t
hawk
hearing
Hebrew
helicopter
Henderson the Rain King (Bellow)
Henry IV, Part 1 (Shakespeare)
Henry V (Shakespeare)
Henry VI, Part 2 (Shakespeare)
Henry VIII (Shakespeare)
hey
hilariously
hindered
history
History of Emily Montague, The (Brooke)
Hobbes, Thomas
hock
hod
Holden, William
-holic
home
home relief
homonymy
Honeymooners, The (TV show)
-hood
Hoper, Paul
hospitable
hot dogs
hound
house
How are you?
How Should I Pronounce? (Phyfe)
hrutan
huh
Hume, David
hunter
Hurt, William
hwaet
I
I agree
ice cream
Icelandic
ih
I know, right?
I know that feel
Iliad, The (Homer)
illustrate
I’m fine
impact
implication
implied contradiction
infinitive
inflation
innumerable
inquiry
in reality
intensification
interjections
invention
ir-
Irish
irregardless
&nb
sp; is not
isn’t
isolate
Is there a solve?
Italian
ithi
“Jabberwocky” (Carroll)
“Jack and Jill”
jam
James, Henry
Jefferson, Thomas
job
Johnson, Samuel
jolly
Jonson, Ben
Juicy Fruit gum
just
Kemble, Fanny
Kemper, Ellie
key
Kham language
kid
king
King Lear (Shakespeare)
kissed
“Knight’s Tale, The” (Chaucer)
knocking-off
Lakoff, Robin
lame-ass
Lanchester, John
lane
language
language
changing
oral vs. written
standards and
Late Middle English
Latin
laughter
laughter, conversation and
launch
laundry
leaf
Legend of Good Women, The (Chaucer)
lengthen
-less
Let’s go!
Leviathan, The (Hobbes)
lic
Liddell, Mark H.
like
likeminded
likewise
Like, wow!
list
listen
literally
LMAO
Lo!
loaf
loathsome
LOL
long-ass
long story short
love
Lowth, Robert
“Luckless Santa Claus, A” (Fitzgerald)
Lucy Show, The (TV show)
-ly
m
Ma’am
Macbeth (Shakespeare)
machine
madam
Magnetic Lady, The (Jonson)
“Magoo’s Check-up” (cartoon)
main sail
mal
man
-man
manny
Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The (TV show)
Mary Tyler Moore Show, The (TV show)
mat
mate
Maude (TV show)
may
“May Day” (Fitzgerald)
meanings
drifting
grid of
Measure for Measure (Shakespeare)
meat
meet
melodrama
Melville, Herman
merry
met
Middle English
Middle High German
Middlemarch (Eliot)
Milton, John
minority
mite
Moby-Dick (Melville)
modal pragmatic markers (MPMs)
Acknowledgment
Black English and
Counterexpectation
defined
Easing
FACE and
Factuality
like as
texting and emoticons
Modern English
Modern Family (TV show)
“Modest Proposal, A” (Swift)
moonshines
Moore, Mary Tyler
moose
motel
motherhood
mouse
move on
mregh
Mr. Magoo (cartoon)
Mualang
music
must
n
nam
narrowing
nasal consonants
Native American languages
nave
ne
necessity
nectarine
negatives
neighborhood
Nepal
nere
never
never mind!
New England
New Guinea
New Orleans
ng
nill
nis
no
nomad
noncore assets
none
noot
Northern Cities Shift
Not!
nothing
nouns
accented syllable and
becoming verbs
case markings and
genders in
verbs becoming
nourishment
’n’ shit
nuclear
nucleolus
number
numerable
nursery
Obama, Barack
Office, The (TV show)
oh
Old English
Old High German
Old Norse
one
Ong, Walter
oo
ope
open
ough
ought
overwhelm
owe, owed
“Owl and the Nightingale, The” (poem)
pack
painted
palimony
paradigm shift
Parks and Recreation (TV show)
participles
particles
pastime
past tense
languages without markers for
present perfect vs.
preterite vs. imperfect
pat
paw
peat
peddle, pedlar
penetrate into
personal pull
Philadelphia
Phyfe, William Henry P.
pink
Pinker, Steven
pios, pii
pitch, rising
pitiful
pizza, pizza pie
Plato
plurals
policeman
poot
Porter, Cole
portly
portmanteau forms
possibility
postman
pot
pote
Powell, William
practically
practice
pragmatics
precedence
prefixes
present perfect tense
pretzel
prickle
pronunciation. See also Backshift; California Shift; Great Vowel Shift; Northern Cities Shift; vowels; and specific places, sounds, and words
accented syllables
changing
“correct”
spelling and
Proto-Germanic
Proto-Indo-European
proved
-pter
pterodactyl
put
putt
question form
quotative marker
Qur’an
Rains, Claude
rank and station
rathe
rather
rattle
raw
reading
really
rebel
record
reduce
redundancy
repeat stress syndrome
Repin, Elias
Richmond, Kent
rise up
risk
road
roadway
Rogers, Samuel
roll
rolled
Romance languages
Romans
Rose, Harry
Russian
-s
written like f
sacrilegious
saintly
Saramaccan language
saucepan
Saussure, Ferdinand de
Scandinavia
Schama, Simon
science
scientist
Scotland
Scots-Irish
scratch
seed
/>
seize
Seize the Day (Bellow)
Seko Padang language
semantics
Semitic languages
Sense of Style, The (Pinker)
sensible
separate out
set
sexaholic
shake
Shakespeare, William
shall
shared identity
shirt
shit, shat
short
shortening
Short Introduction to English Grammar, A (Lowth)
should
Sicilian
silly
Silvers, Phil
Simpsons, The (TV show)
sink down
sitcom
Skyscraper Souls (film)
sliced off
sloth
slow
slow-like, slowly
smart-ass
Smith, Phyllis
smog
sneaked, snuck
so
solution
sooner
sooth
soothsayer
Southeast Asian languages
spam
Spanish
special needs
speed
spelling
Spoke, Conrad
stand
station
status
staycation
stay put
stella
stepwise
St. Louis
stone
straight up
street
strengthen
Strike Me Pink (film)
strong
structure
stuff like that there
subjunctive
suffice
suffixes. See also specific suffixes
falling off
grammar word becoming
suitcase
Sulawesi Island
Sunset Boulevard (film)
supermarket
Surinam
suspect
Swift, Jonathan
synergy
tarnation
taunt
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
textaholic
texting
th
that
the
their, singular
thes
these
they, singular
Thin Man, The (film)
thorough
through
tih
Time and Again (Finney)
tip
tithe
to
to be
Tomasello, Michael
totally
tough
tree
true, truth
truly
truth. See also Factuality
tu
Turner, Kathleen
twirling
u
uh
Ukraine
-ular
um
uncouth
unfold
up
uptalk
use
use and custom
used to
vape
vapor
vegetable
verbs. See also specific tenses and suffixes
becoming nouns
conjugation
endings
irregular
nouns becoming
veridical marker
verily
verrai
very
Vikings
vision
¡Viva Zapata!
vivir
vowels
as “bees” in mouth
changing sounds of
shifts
spill
walk
Walkman
want
warm
Washington Square (James)
water
weather
weep
welfare
well
Welsh
wer
werewolf
Wharton, Edith
what
what all
what’s the ask?
“Where Do Words Come From?” (Hopper)
wherefore
who, who all, who’s
willy-nilly
Winsor, Kathleen
Wisconsin
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