H.L. Mencken (1880–1956). The American Language. 1921.
Subject Index 10
| Wachtel, C. H., 340, 422 |
| Walbran, John D., 347 |
| Walker, John, 70, 112, 229 |
| Walsh, Robert, 80 |
| Walsh, Senator, of Massachusetts, 175 |
| Ward, Artemus, 268 |
| Wardlaw, Patterson, 259 |
| Ware, J. R., 54, 92, 96, 157, 158, 162 |
| Warnock, Elsie L., 96, 191, 196 |
| War slang, 368 |
| Washington, George, 59, 66, 74, 76, 98 |
| Washington, Mrs., 147 |
| Watson, H. B. Marriott, 165 |
| Watts, Harvey M., 383 |
| Weaver, John V. A., viii, 270, 386, 395 |
| Weber and Fields, 201 |
| Webster, Daniel, 89 |
| Webster, Noah, 1, 6, 7, 8, 45, 46, 59, 65, 69, 71, 73, 84, 91, 110, 112, 179, 217, 228, 243, 244, 247, 316 |
| Webster’s New International Dictionary, 240 |
| Webster, W. F., 260 |
| Weekley, Ernest, xv, 53 |
| Weekly Review, 247 |
| Weeks, Senator, 175 |
| Wells, H. G., 13, 24, 161, 163 |
| Wendell, Barrett, 78 |
| Wesley, John, 231 |
| Westminster Gazette, 13, 18 |
| Westminster Review, 29 |
| Wheelock, John Hall, 87 |
| Whewell, William, 36 |
| White, James, 347 |
| White, Richard Grant, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 36, 38, 59, 62, 110, 131, 143, 149, 150, 162, 163, 170, 179, 207, 220, 243, 259, 356 |
| Whitman, Walt, 21, 86, 87, 88, 343, 348, 385 |
| Whitney, William D., 360, 364 |
| Wilcox, W. H., 258, 260 |
| Williams, Alexander, 191 |
| Williams, R. O., 83, 84, 136, 230 |
| Wilson, A. J., 123 |
| Wilson, Edmund, Jr., 166, 369 |
| Wilson, W. A., 151 |
| Wilson, Woodrow, 16, 34, 76, 169, 174, 189 |
| Winslow, Thyra Samter, 335 |
| Winthrop, John, 228 |
| Wirt, William, 327 |
| Witherspoon, John, 8, 47, 94, 184 |
| Wittmann, Elisabeth, 184, 185, 186, 187 |
| Worcester Dictionary, 241 |
| Worcester, Joseph E., 80, 110, 112, 230, 233, 235 |
| Wordsworth, William, 80 |
| World Almanac, 142, 324, 339, 374, 375 |
| World’s Work, 376 |
| Wright, Almroth, 138, 161 |
| Writer’s Monthly, 200 |
| Wycliffe, John, 292 |
| Yale Review, 183, 256, 257 |
| Yankee-Dutch, 418, 419 |
| Yeats, W. B., 179 |
| Yiddish language, 405 |
| Yiddish loan-words, 109, 163, 198 |
| Y. M. C. A., 25 |
| Yule, Henry |
| Zetterstrand, E. A., 414 |