The Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language

accent acrolect adjectives African Afrikaans alphabet AMERICAN ENGLISH Arabic associated Australian basilect Bible Britain British Canadian Caribbean CARIBBEAN ENGLISH Celtic CELTIC LANGUAGES classical clause common Compare consonant Creole cultural Cumbric developed dialect Dictionary digraph distinct England English Language especially ethnic European example French Gaelic German grammar Greek guage Indian inflected influence Ireland Irish island Jamaican Creole Latin letters linguistic LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY lish literary literature loan translations loanwords London Maori mark meaning ment mesolect Middle English Modern English morphemes native non-rhotic noun official Old English origin phonetics phrase PIDGIN place-names plural pronounced pronunciation Received Pronunciation reference regional rhotic Roman schwa Scots semantic sentence social sometimes sound South Spanish speakers speech spelling spoken standard English stress STYLE suffix syllable teaching term texts tion tongue traditional translation usage usually varieties verb vernacular vocabulary vowel Welsh West words writing