H.L. Mencken (1880–1956). The American Language. 1921.
Subject Index 8
| Phipson, Evacustes A., 168, 215 |
| Phonetic alphabets, 207 |
| Pickering, John, 8, 29, 38, 50, 59, 72, 78, 94 |
| Pidgin English, 203, 377, 383 |
| Pinkney, William, 61 |
| Poe, Edgar Allan, 34, 86, 149, 327 |
| Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, 18, 192, 194 |
| Polack, W. G., 130, 216 |
| Polish given names, 340 |
| Polish language, 422 |
| Polish surnames, 325, 331, 332 |
| Political vocabulary, 98, 124, 157 |
| Pomeroy, Samuel C., 85 |
| Pope, Alexander, 106 |
| Pope, T. Michael, 163 |
| Portuguese language, 6, 374, 375 |
| Portuguese loan-words, 200 |
| Pory, John, 55 |
| Pound, Louise, 186, 195, 196, 198, 201, 202, 213, 252, 309, 314, 342, 354, 363 |
| Prince, J. Dyneley, 416 |
| Printers’ vocabulary, 132 |
| Profanity, 153 |
| Pronunciation, American, 69, 110, 206 |
| Protestant Episcopal Church, 169, 216 |
| Psychoanalytic Review, 334 |
| Publications Buffalo Historical Society, 347 |
| Publications Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, 421 |
| Public Health Reports, 142 |
| Puritan given names, 340 |
| Pronoun, American, 291 |
| Purvey, John, 276 |
| Putnam, Ruth, 347 |
| Quarterly Review, 45, 46, 49, 79, 80, 83 |
| Quiller-Couch, Arthur, 33, 248 |
| Railroad terms, 97 |
| Raleigh, Walter, 248 |
| Ramos y Duarte, Félix, 101 |
| Ramsay, David, 78 |
| Rauch, E. H., 398 |
| Read, Richard P., 225 |
| Read, William A., 211, 314 |
| Real Academia Espanola de la Lengua, 6 |
| Red Men, Order of, 52 |
| Reed, Alfred Z., 85 |
| Rees, John E., 347 |
| Revue de Dialectologie Romane, 403 |
| Richardson, Samuel, 178, 304 |
| Rittenhouse, Jessie B., 192 |
| Riverside Press, 240 |
| Roberts, George E., 192 |
| Robertson, D. M., 5 |
| Robinson, Andrew, 58 |
| Romanic Review, 409 |
| Roof, Katharine Metcalf, 167 |
| Roosevelt, Theodore, 58, 194, 244, 362, 363 |
| Roquiny, Jacques de, 402 |
| Rosecrans, W. S., 327 |
| Rouquette, Adrien, 402 |
| Rouquette, Dominique, 402 |
| Ruppenthan, J. C., 105, 198, 330, 340 |
| Ruskin, John, 13, 304 |
| Russian language, 372, 373, 374, 375, 376 |
| Ruttenber, E. M., 348 |
| Sadig, Mufti Muhammad, 27 |
| Saint-Cèran, Tullius, 402 |
| Saintsbury, George, 143, 248, 364, 366 |
| Sala, George Augustus, 13 |
| Sanchez, Nellie van de Grift, 347 |
| Sandburg, Carl, 87, 179, 386 |
| Sargent, Porter E., 170 |
| Saturday Evening Post, 181, 269 |
| Saturday Review, 119, 136, 170, 236 |
| Sayce, A. H., 13, 31, 37, 206, 207, 217, 243, 277, 313, 385 |
| Scandinavian surnames, 324, 325, 331 |
| Scandinavian Studies and Notes, 5 |
| Schele de Vere, Maximilian, 6, 12, 40, 43, 109, 167, 235, 328, 349 |
| Schoolcraft, Henry R., 348 |
| School Review, 213 |
| Schuchardt, H., 401 |
| Schuette, Oswald F., 363 |
| Schwab, Charles M., 138 |
| Scotch dialect, 102 |
| Scribner’s Magazine, 17 |
| Searle, William G., 323 |
| Sechrist, Frank K., 361 |
| Seeley, J. R., 65 |
| Serbian language, 422 |
| Sewall, Samuel, 64 |
| Shakespeare, William, 68, 178, 231, 276, 277, 283, 298, 312, 363 |
| Shaw, George Bernard, 155, 225, 238 |
| Sheridan, Thomas, 70 |
| Sherman, L. Y., 175, 181 |
| Sherman, W. T., 424 |
| Sherwood, General, 175, 176 |
| Shorter, Clement K., 170 |
| Sidney, Philip, 303 |
| Sigourney, Lydia, 83 |
| Simplified Spelling, 243 |
| Simplified Spelling Board, 244 |
| Skeat, W. W., 29, 244 |
| Sketch, 119 |