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Stanley Kauffmann Film critic, New Republic Alfred Kazin Writer; Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus, the Graduate Center, City University of New York Trudy Kehret-Ward Educator; writer Garrison Keillor Author and host of A Prairie Home Companion Elizabeth T. Kennan Formerly President, Mount Holyoke College Walter Kerr Drama critic (retired), New York Times; formerly drama critic, New York Herald Tribune; past President, New York Drama Critics' Circle; recipient, Pulitzer Prize Jamaica Kincaid Author Florence King Writer; critic Maxine Hong Kingston Writer; recipient, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Anisfield-Wolf Race Relations Award, and PEN USA West Award in Fiction Galway Kinnell Poet; Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing, New York University; recipient, Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award The Hon. Jeremy K.B. Kinsman Canadian Ambassador to Russia The Hon. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Diplomat; writer; educator; formerly U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Maxine Kumin Writer; formerly Consultant in Poetry, Library of Congress; recipient, Pulitzer Prize Charles Kuralt Author; former CBS News correspondent J.J. Lamberts* Professor Emeritus of English, Arizona State University; author of works on English usage Milton I. Levine, M.D.* Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, New York Hospital--Cornell Medical Center; radio commentator, CBS; formerly syndicated columnist Flora Lewis Senior Columnist, New York Times Syndicate Robert E. Lewis Lexicographer; Editor in Chief, Middle English Dictionary; Professor of English, University of Michigan Sara Lawrence Lightfoot Professor of Education, Harvard University; writer; recipient, MacArthur Prize J. Anthony Lukas Author; journalist; recipient, Pulitzer Prize Russell Lynes* Writer; formerly Managing Editor, Harper's Claudine B. Malone Management consultant; formerly Associate Professor, Harvard Business School William Manchester Writer-in-Residence and Adjunct Professor of History Emeritus, Wesleyan University; Fellow, Pierson College, Yale University Robert Manning Writer; editor; formerly Editor in Chief, Atlantic Richard Curry Marius Novelist and biographer; Director of Expository Writing, Harvard University Suzanne R. Massie Writer; lecturer on Russian history and culture; Fellow, Harvard Russian Research Center...
Edward W. Rosenheim Editor; writer; Professor of English Emeritus, University of Chicago Judith Rossner Novelist Leo Rosten Writer; social scientist; editor Berton Roueché* Writer Vermont Royster Writer; educator; Editor Emeritus, Wall Street Journal; recipient, Pulitzer Prize Carl Sagan David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and Director, Laboratory for Planetary Studies, Cornell University; scientist; author; recipient, Pulitzer Prize Robert Saudek Television producer; former Division Chief, Library of Congress; Lecturer on Visual Studies, Harvard University; founding President, Museum of Broadcasting Antonin Scalia Supreme Court Justice Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Writer; historian; educator; formerly Special Assistant to the President of the United States; recipient, Pulitzer Prize Glenn T. Seaborg University Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley; formerly Chair, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; recipient, Nobel Prize Art Seidenbaum* Journalist; Editor, Opinion Section, Los Angeles Times Harvey Shapiro Poet; Senior editor, New York Times Magazine Elaine Showalter Professor of English, Princeton University John Simon Drama critic, New York; film critic, National Review Carlota S. Smith Centennial Professor of Linguistics; In Charge, Cognitive Science Program, University of Texas Jack Smith* Columnist, Los Angeles Times Susan Sontag Writer Theodore C. Sorensen Attorney; writer; formerly Special Counsel to the President of the United States Susan Stamberg Special Correspondent, National Public Radio Wallace Stegner* Writer; founder and formerly Director, Stanford University Writing Program; recipient, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Shane Templeton Foundation Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Nevada, Reno Paul Theroux Novelist; travel writer Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Writer Nina Totenberg Legal Affairs Correspondent, National Public Radio and ABC’s “Nightline”; panelist, “Inside Washington” Elizabeth C. Traugott Professor of Linguistics and English, Stanford University Calvin Trillin Staff writer, New Yorker; columnist, Time Anne Tyler Novelist; recipient, Pulitzer Prize...
A NATURAL H I S T O R Y OF ENGLISH: LANGUAGE, CULTURE, AND THE AMERICAN HERITAGE
LEE PEDERSON...
ficient evidence to prove it. He does not so much assert as exhibit. He has no transient or private purposes to serve....
in their respective translations of the Medieval Latin (Matthew 6:9) “pater noster, qui est in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum”: NORTHUMBRIAN Fader urer thu arth in heofnas, sie gehalgad noma thin Father our thou art in heaven, be hallowed name thy MERCIAN Fæder ure thu the in heofunum earth, beo gehalgad thin noma Father our thou which in heaven art, be hallowed thy name WEST SAXON Fæder ure thu the eart on heofonum, si thin nama gehalgod Father our thou which art in heaven, be thy name hallowed Despite differences in pronunciation, word formation, and syntax, simple and effective conversation was surely possible among speakers of these different regional dialects of English. Conversation was also possible between the English and their Viking conquerors, the Norwegians and the Danes, many of whom settled primarily in what are now the northeast counties and took up peaceful ways with English wives. The fact that cultural interaction extended through most of the Old English period (449–1066) is evidenced in the greatest literary monument of the Anglo-Saxons, their epic poem Beowulf, which has a thoroughly Scandinavian setting and cast. Words shared by Anglo-Saxons and Vikings include bring, can, come, father, folk, house, life, man, mine, mother, see, sit, smile, sorrow, summer, thine, wife, will, winter, and wise. In addition to hundreds of such intimate correspondences, the Scandinavians gave English many other familiar words through cultural interaction: anger, fellow, happy, husband, meek, root, rotten, skill, skin, skull, sky, and ugly. A second and much greater influence was brought to bear on the language and culture after the Battle of Hastings in 1066, when the Normans, French-speaking descendants of the Vikings, arrived from Normandy....
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