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H.L. Mencken (1880–1956). The American Language. 1921.

Subject Index 2

Billings, Josh, 268
Blackwood’s Magazine, 79
Bohemian given names, 340
Bohemian language, 422
Bohemian surnames, 325, 330, 332, 336
Bonaparte, Prince. L.-L., 207
Boni, Alfred, 411
Bookman, 22, 153, 195
Book of Common Prayer, 130, 182
Boot, H. E., 181
Borah, Senator, 134, 181
Bosson, Olaf E., 361
Boston Globe, 202
Boucher, Jonathan, 47, 61, 184
Boucicault, Dion, 108
Boyd, Stephen G., 344
Brackebusch, W., 373, 376
Bradford, Gamaliel, 136
Bradley, Henry, 143, 237, 244, 248, 289, 292, 293, 377
Brailsford, H. N., 13, 16
Branner, John C., 349
Brazilian Portuguese, 6
Bremer, Otto, 5
Bridges, Robert, 143, 210, 211, 237, 248, 317, 385
Bright, John, 320
British Critic, 48, 49, 60
Bristed, Charles Astor, 45, 90, 92, 135
British Review, 79
Brooke, Rupert, 165
Brooks, John Graham, 82, 149
Brooks, Van Wyck, 4, 173
Brownell, W. C., 34
Brundage, Edward J., 312
Bryant, William Cullen, 36, 61, 78, 84, 86, 233, 234
Buchwald, Nathaniel, 408
Buehler, H. G., 374
Bulgarian language, 422
Bulletin of the University of South Carolina, 259
Burbank, Luther, 186
Burgess, Gelett, 195
Burke, Edmund, 302
Burnell, A. C., 51
Burnett, John L., 92
Burnham, Lord, 131
Burr, Aaron, 98
Burton, Richard, 21
Butler, Samuel, 160
Buttmann, Philipp Karl, 209
Cable, George W., 401
Cahan, Abraham, 336, 408
Cairns, William B., 49, 79
California localisms, 108, 187, 202
Cambridge History of American Literature, 66, 82, 173, 385, 400, 402, 408
Cambridge History of English Literature, 13, 37, 45, 55, 70, 160, 211, 238, 253, 364, 423
Canadian dialect, 382, 383
Canadian pronunciation, 216
Canadian spelling, 242
Canning, George, 61
Canonge, Placide, 402
Carlyle, Thomas, 161
Carnegie, Andrew, 244
Carpenter, W. H., 349
Carroll, Dixie, 270
Carroll, T. W., 153
Cassell’s New English Dictionary, 37, 104, 157, 158, 159, 161, 162, 163, 166, 225, 232, 237, 238, 241, 249, 371
Century Dictionary, 40
Century Magazine, 36, 37, 143
Chamberlain, Alex. F., 51, 57, 400
Chamberlain, Joseph, 157, 161
Channing, William Ellery, 49, 82, 86
Charters, W. W., 4, 264, 282, 289, 290, 299, 302, 304, 309, 310
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 68, 111, 276, 292, 293, 305, 312
Chesterfield, Lord, 106
Chesterton, Cecil, 13, 16
Chesterton, G. K., 13, 153, 164
Chicago Daily News, 36, 37
Chicago Inter-Ocean, 363
Chicago Record-Herald, 367
Chicago Tribune, 25, 314
Child, J. J., 6
Chinese given names, 340
Chinese immigration, 108
Chinese language, 375
Chinese loan-words, 108, 202, 370
Chopin, Kate, 401
Christian Disciple, 91
Christian names, 338
Christian Science Monitor, 167, 203
Christian World, 131
Christy, Robert, 425
Churchill, William, 205, 383
Civil War, effects of, 85, 92
Clapin, Sylva, 41, 52, 360, 361
Classical Journal, 252
Claxton, P. P., 333
Clemenceau, Georges, 27
Clemens, Samuel L., 20, 34, 247, 361, 424
Cleveland, Grover, 33
Clive, C. J., 119
Cobb, Lyman, 8, 11, 111, 229, 233, 235