Phonetic Symbols -- Some Preliminary Considerations -- From Runes to Printing -- From William Caxton to George Washington: 1476 to 1776 -- The Disjunctive Period: 1776 to the Present Day -- Literature, Ritualistic Works, and Language -- The Recording of English in Dictionaries and Grammars -- Vocabulary -- Pronunciation and Spelling -- The Syntactical Arrangement of Words -- Dispersed Forms of English -- Afterword