OUR MARVELOUS NATIVE TONGUE --- THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE by Robert Claiborne. Times Books, 1983
    PREFACE (pvii-x)

      1) THE IMPORTANCE OF SPEAKING ENGLISH --- A most extraordinary language (p3-23)

      2) THE COMMON SOURCE --- Indo-European and its speakers (p25-44)

      3) THE FIRST CONQUEST --- From the Danube to the Baltic (p45-69)

      4) THE SECOND CONQUEST ---From West Germanic to Old English (p70-94)

      5) THE THIRD CONQUEST --- English and French (p95-117)

      6) THE FIRST FLOWERING --- Chaucer, Caxton and "Good English" (p117-149)

      7) "THE VERIE HEIGHT" --- Shakespeare and the King James Bible (p150-174)

      8) A SEARCH FOR ORDER --- Trying to make English behave (p175-197)

      9) ONLY IN AMERICA --- English leaps the Atlantic (p198-227)

      10) OUR INFINITE VARIETY --- Modern variations on an old theme (p228-259)

      11) NOT EVERYBODY'S ENGLISH --- Some remarkable vocabularies (p260-278)

      12) FROM HERE ON IN --- English today and tomorrow (p280-307)

    NOTES ON SOURCES AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING (p308-322)

    INDEX OF WORDS, PHRASES AND PROPER NAMES (p323-334)

    SUBJECT INDEX (p335-339)

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