PRONUNCIATION GUIDE1 INTRODUCTION: THE WEALTH OF ENGLISH 3 2 HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND SOURCES OF ENGLISH VOCABULARY 15 3 MORPHOLOGY: ANALYZING COMPLEX WORDS 29 4 ALLOMORPHY 47 5 PHONETICS 56 6 REGULAR ALLOMORPHY; NUMERALS AND NUMBER WORDS 73 7 POLYSEMY AND SEMANTIC CHANGE 91 8 USAGE AND VARIATION 110 9 LATIN AND GREEK MORPHOLOGY 121 10 PREHISTORY OF ENGLISH AND THE OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES 136 11 LATIN WORDS, PHRASES, AND ABBREVIATIONS IN ENGLISH 148 12 LATER CHANGES: FROM LATIN TO FRENCH TO ENGLISH 159 APPENDIX I, PART 1: MORPHEMES TO GLOSSES 173 APPENDIX I, PART 2: GLOSSES TO MORPHEMES 197 APPENDIX II: MORPHEME SETS 1 TO 9 217 FURTHER READING AND RESEARCH TOOLS 235 INDEX 241