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Notes on Contributors

Richard W. Bailey is Fred Newton Scott Collegiate Professor of English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is past president of both the American Dialect Society and the Dictionary Society of North America. His books include Images of English (1991), Nineteenth-Century English (1996), and a biography of a philological murderer, Rogue Scholar: the Sinister Career and Celebrated Death of Edward H. Rulloff (2003).

Paula Blank is Associate Professor of English at the College of William and Mary in Virgina. She is the author of Broken English: Dialects and the Politics of Language in Renaissance Writings (1996), and articles on the language and rhetoric of Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and Jonson. She is currently working on a book on the rhetoric of ‘equality’ in the Renaissance.

Marilyn Corrie is a lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at University College London. She is the author of a forthcoming study of Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur and the editor of A Concise Companion to Middle English Literature, forthcoming from Blackwell.

David Crystal was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Reading for several years, and is currently Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor. His authored works are mainly in applied linguistics and English language studies, and he is editor of a series of general reference encyclopedias, first for Cambridge University Press and now for Penguin Books, along with their online incarnations.

Terry Hoad is a Fellow of St Peter’s College, Oxford, and Tutor in English Language and Medieval Literature. He is also a lecturer in the English Faculty at Oxford University, and previously taught at Queen Mary College, London, and at the University of Arizona. His publications include the second (revised) edition (1978) of Henry Sweet’s Second AngloSaxon Reader, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology (1986).

Susan Irvine is Professor of English Language and Literature in the Department of English at University College London. She is the author of Old English Homilies from MS Bodley 343 (1993) and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle MS E (2004), and co-author (with Bruce Mitchell) of Beowulf Repunctuated (2000). She has also published articles on writings of the transitional period between Old and Middle English, on rhetoric and meaning in Old English poems, and on King Alfred’s translation of Boethius’s

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Consolation of Philosophy. She is currently working (with Malcolm Godden) on a critical edition of Alfred’s Boethius.

Tom McArthur is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Linguists, London. He has, among other posts and activities, been Head of English, Cathedral School, Bombay/ Mumbai, India, an Associate Professor of English at the Universite´ du Que´bec in Canada, an Honorary Fellow at the University of Exeter (in the Dictionary Research Centre), and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at both the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Xiamen University, Fujian, China. He is founding editor of the quarterly journal English Today: The International Review of the English Language (Cambridge, 1985–) and the Oxford Companion to the English Language (1992), and is the author, among other works, of The Longman Lexicon of Contemporary English (1981), The English Languages (Cambridge, 1998), and The Oxford Guide to World English (2002).

April McMahon is Forbes Professor of English Language at the University of Edinburgh. She has research interests in English phonology, past and present; in language classification; phonological theory; and evolutionary linguistics. Her publications include Understanding Language Change (Cambridge University Press, 1994), Change, Chance, and Optimality (Oxford University Press, 2000), Lexical Phonology and the History of English (Cambridge University Press, 2000), and Language Classification by Numbers (with Rob McMahon; Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Lynda Mugglestone is a Fellow in English Language at Pembroke College, Oxford, and News International Lecturer at the University of Oxford. She has published widely on language in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Recent work includes Lexicography and the OED. Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest (Oxford University Press, 2002), ‘Talking Proper’. The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol, 2nd edn. (Oxford University Press, 2003), and Lost for Words. The Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary (Yale University Press, 2004).

Terttu Nevalainen is Professor of English Philology at the University of Helsinki and the Director of the Research Unit for Variation and Change in English. Her research focuses on historical sociolinguistics, language change, and early modern English. Her publications include ‘Early Modern English Lexis and Semantics’, in R. Lass (ed.), The Cambridge History of the English Language, Vol. 3 (Cambridge University Press, 1999); Historical Sociolinguistics; Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England (Longman 2003; with H. Raumolin-Brunberg); and An Introduction to Early Modern English (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming). She is also the director of the research project ‘Sociolinguistics and Language History’, which has produced the Corpus of Early English Correspondence.

Jeremy J. Smith is Professor of English Philology in the University of Glasgow. His publications include An Historical study of English (1996), Essentials of Early English (1999) and An Introduction to Middle English (with S. Horobin, 2002). He is currently working on a new survey of Middle English transmission (with S. Horobin

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and M. Stenroos), and a study of the actuation of sound-change in the history of English.

Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade is senior lecturer in the English department of the University of Leiden. She has written a study of periphrastic do in eighteenth-century English (1987) as well as a book on the use of multiple negation in Malory’s Morte D’Arthur (1995). In addition, she has edited a variety of international collections of articles. Her research interests include social network analysis in the history of English and the standardization process (especially codification and prescription), on which subjects she has widely published. She edits an internet journal called Historical Sociolinguistics and Sociohistorical Linguistics.

Matthew Townend is Lecturer in English at the University of York. He is the author of

English Place-Names in Skaldic Verse (1998) and Language and History in Viking Age England (2002), and is the editor of Wulfstan, Archbishop of York (2004). He has also published many articles on Old Norse poetry and Anglo-Norse contact, and is currently editing the Old Norse poems in honour of King Cnut.

Clive Upton is Professor of Modern English Language in the School of English at the University of Leeds. He was formerly a teacher in universities in Africa and Papua New Guinea, and a researcher in the Universities of Leeds and Birmingham and at the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition at the University of Sheffield. His research specialisms are in English dialectology and pronunciation: he has been associated with the Surveys of English Dialects and Anglo-Welsh Dialects for more than thirty years, and is currently developing a new dialect survey, the Survey of Regional English. He is also pronunciation consultant to Oxford University Press, where he is responsible for the description of Received Pronunciation carried by the larger native-speaker Oxford English Dictionaries.

Acknowledgements

The author would like to thank the following for permission to reproduce material: the British Library Board for permission to reproduce the manuscript image of lines 2677–87 from the Beowulf Manuscript (taken from the Electronic Beowulf, ed. K. Kiernan (London: The British Library Board, 2004); the English Place-Name Society for permission to reproduce Map 10 from A. H. Smith, English Place-Name Elements (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1956); the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture for permission to reproduce the photograph of the inscribed sundial at Aldbrough; the Department of Special Collections, Glasgow University Library, for permission to reproduce the passage illustrating Caxton’s use of English from The Myrrour of the World (Westminster: c 1490; A4v, Sp Coll Hunterian Bv.2.30); the Bodleian Library for permission to reproduce William Barnes’s Dorset translation of Queen Victoria’s speech on opening Parliament in

1863 (from W. Barnes, A Grammar and Glossary of the Dorset Dialect with the History, Outspreading, and Bearings of South-Western English (London: Tru¨bner & Co, 1864)), and for permission to reproduce ‘Th’ Dickshonary’, by Teddy Ashton, from J. Baron, Tum o’ Dick o’ Bobs’s Lankisher Dickshonary (Manchester: John Heywood, n.d.); I would also like to thank the College of Arms for permission to reproduce the manuscript drawing of the Arms of Sir John Hawkins; David Parry for permission to reproduce the SAWD/SED map for calf from A Grammar and Glossary of the Conservative Anglo-Welsh Dialects of Rural Wales (Sheffield: National Centre for English Cultural Tradition, 1999: 244). I would also like to thank Lucinda Rumsey for her many helpful suggestions on the text, and April Warman for her assiduous checking of quotations and references throughout the volume.

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