Produced by David Starner, David Garcia and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. _S.P.E._ _TRACT No. V_ THE ENGLISHING OF FRENCH WORDS By Brander Matthews THE DIALECTAL WORDS IN BLUNDEN’S POEMS etc. by Robert Bridges _At the Clarendon Press_ MDCCCCXXI FRENCH WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE I The English language is an Inn of Strange Meetings