Works Consulted

In addition to the volumes and materials on display, works consulted in the creation of this exhibition include:

“2015 Word of the Year Is Singular ‘They.’” American Dialect Society (blog), January 9, 2016. https://www.americandialect.org/2015-word-of-the-year-is-singular-they.

Alston, Robin. A Bibliography of the English Language from the Invention of Printing to the Year 1800; a Systematic Record of Writings on English, and on Other Languages in English, Based on the Collections of the Principal Libraries of the World. Leeds [Eng.]: Printed for the author by E.J. Arnold, 1965.

Andrews, Travis M. “The Singular, Gender-Neutral ‘They’ Added to the Associated Press Stylebook.” Washington Post, March 28, 2017, sec. Morning Mix. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/03/28/the-singular-gender-neutral-they-added-to-the-associated-press-stylebook/.

Burnley, David. The History of the English Language: A Source Book. 2nd ed. Harlow, England ; New York: Longman, 2000.

Cameron, Angus, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette diPaolo Healey et al., eds. Dictionary of Old English: A to H online. Toronto: Dictionary of Old English Project, 2016.  http://tapor.library.utoronto.ca/doe/.

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Fens-de Zeeuw, Lyda. “The Letter-Writing Manual in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: From Polite to Practical.” Un Studies in Late Modern English Correspondence: Methodology and Data, edited by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade and Marina Dossena. Bern: Peter Lang, 2008.

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Iliffe, Rob, and George E. Smith, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Newton. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCO9781139058568.018.

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Momma, Haruko, and Michael Matto, eds. A Companion to the History of the English Language. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture 54. Chichester, UK; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.

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