Figures
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1.Geographical distribution of <a> and <o> spellings of land
2.The chronological development by royal dynasty of five northern features
3.The chronological development by royal dynasty of the third-person singular present indicative ending
4.The chronological development of the four main spellings of the vocalic element of THEY in the North
6.The English lexicon, from A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, founded mainly on the materials collected by The Philological Society, and edited by James A. H. Murray, Henry Bradley, W. A. Craigie, C. T. Onions, Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1884
7.The Towneley Plays; San Marino, Huntington Library, MS HM 1, fol. 1. Reproduced by permission of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California
8.Portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer, in The Regiment of Princes by Thomas Hoccleve; London, British Library, MS Harley 4866, fol. 88. Reproduced by permission of the British Library Board
9.“Semi-Saxon” and “Middle English” in nineteenth‐ century periodicals
