Albert C. Baugh was Schelling Memorial Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.Thomas Cable is the Jane Weinert Blumberg Chair Emeritus in English at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

• Preface 1. English Present and Future 2. The Indo-European Family of Languages 3. Old English 4. Foreign Influences on Old English 5. The Norman Conquest and the Subjection of English, 1066–1200 6. The Reestablishment of English, 1200–1500 7. Middle English 8. The Renaissance, 1500–1650 9. The Appeal to Authority, 1650–1800 10. The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 11. The English Language in America 12. The Twenty-First Century Appendix A: Specimens of the Middle English Dialects Appendix B: English Spelling Index

Albert C. Baugh was Schelling Memorial Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.Thomas Cable is the Jane Weinert Blumberg Chair Emeritus in English at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

• Preface 1. English Present and Future 2. The Indo-European Family of Languages 3. Old English 4. Foreign Influences on Old English 5. The Norman Conquest and the Subjection of English, 1066–1200 6. The Reestablishment of English, 1200–1500 7. Middle English 8. The Renaissance, 1500–1650 9. The Appeal to Authority, 1650–1800 10. The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 11. The English Language in America 12. The Twenty-First Century Appendix A: Specimens of the Middle English Dialects Appendix B: English Spelling Index