General Index

abstracts, science, 81, 108
ABC of Basic English, 7, 31, 39, 43, 89
acts, names of simple, 134
Addison, 17
adjectives, 23-24, 37, 129-33, 157-58; used as nouns, 189- 90
adverbs, 32, 57, 146-47; position of, 164-65; and see relative
ambiguity, 72
America, 91
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 13, 14
American influence on English, 17
analytic tendency, 11, 15-17
Anglo-Saxon, 15
Annales Guebhard Severine, 80- 81
Argentine, 50
articles, 128-29
artificial languages, 8, 99
Athens, 91
Australia, 90
auxiliary language, 5, 50
international,
Basic by Examples, 43
Basic Dictionary, The, 138
Basic English Foundation, 89-92, 101-02
521
Basic English Word List and System, copyright in the, 101
Basic English, the future of, 92- - 95, 107-08
Basic English word-list, 6, 7, 56.- 58, 73, 99
Basic Mathematics Dictionary, 107
Basic Parallel Library, 93-94
Basic Picture Talks  , 19
Basic Step by Step, 6, 39, 43
Basic Way to English, The, 39, 74
Basic Words, The, 38, 39 - Bengali, 49
Bentham's Theory of Fictions 11 - 20, 98
Bible in Basic English, The, 88, 441-42
Biology, 9, 393
Boston, Mass., 91
British Association, 81
British Council, 101
British Government and Basic English, 99-103, 376-80
Burma, 90
business, Basic for, 82-87

calendar, 14
Canada, 91
Cafford, Professor J. C., 40
case inflections, 32
chemical formulae, 14
chemistry, 6, 9, 79, 392
children, methods of teaching, 38-39; suitability of Basic for, 121
China, 88, 108
Chinese, 11, 49-50
Churchill, Sir Winston, and Basic: Minute to Sir Edward Bridges, 111-113;
    Minute to the Rt. Hon. L. S. Amery, 113-14;
    Answer to a question in Parliament, 114;
    discussion with President Roosevelt on Basic, 116
Churchill's Cabinet Committee, 9-100
comparison, and comparatives of adjectives and adverbs, 24-57, 174-76
complex words, compounds, 156- 59
computers, 108-109
conjugates, 7
conjunctions, 32-33, 132
contractions, 39
currency, 35

damages, compensation for, 100, 101
demonstratives, 149
Denmark, 91-92
derivatives, see suffixes
Development of Mathematical Logic, 106
directions, 29-32, 53, 140-44, 201-11; diagram of, 30
Direct Method, 74

East, the, 50, 88
economics, 77
endings, see suffixes
English language: demand for, 108; nature of, 8, 45-46, 71;
     number of users of, 9-10, 47, 49, 50, 71; rhythm of, 64-65;
     value for trade, 52, 82, 88
entomology, 9
Esperanto, 46, 87, 99
Europe, 9 1-92
expansion, 20, 31, 60; expansions, 69-70, 183-90;
     expansion of Basic into full English, 43-44, 60

feeling, 53
fictions, 20, 52-53
financial negotiations with the British Government, 100-02
first hundred words, 126-27
fixed word-groups, see idioms
Ford, Henry, 95
foreign terms in English, 37
form-changes, 57
French, 49, 58, 71
From Pictures to Letters, 39

General Basic English Dictionary, 38
general names, 124
German, 49
grading, 41
grammar, 58, 87
grammatical definitions, 11
gramophone records, 12, 40
Guyton, Mary, 91

Hall, Robert A., 105
Hogben, Lancelot, 105
Hyderabad, 90

idioms, 7, 26, 31, 37, 51, 57, 60; with adjectives, 220; with general nouns, 220-2 1;
     with names of acts and directions, 213-19; with other `operation-words,' 219-20;
     with pictured nouns, 221-22; the 50 most necessary, 231-32
impersonal constructions, 147, 172, 173
imperative, 150-52
indefinite pronoun, 170
India, 90, 104
inflected languages, 15, 16
interjections, 150-52
international words, 34-36, 87, 48, 65, 234-86
interrogation, interrogatives, 34, 166-67
irregularities, in English grammar, 15-16, 46; in English spelling, 12

James, Henry, 17
Jameson, Professor B. D., 88
Japan, 10, 50, 88-89
Japanese, 10, 49
Japanese-Basic Dictionary, 85, 88, 107
Joyce, James, 7

language-teaching, defects of present methods, 58, 71-75
last hundred words, 152
Latin, 17, 58
latitude, 14
learning Basic, methods of, 38, 61-64, 66-69, 74-75, 120;
     rate of, 45, 50-51, 61-67, 170
Litvinoff, Mrs., 90
Lloyd-James, Professor, 40
London Institute of Education, 98
longitude, 14
Masaryk, President, 95
mathematical logic, 106
mathematical terms, 37
Meaning of Meaning, The,
measurement, 85, 36
metaphor, 11, 20, 31, 37
metric system, 14, 87
model sentences, 88, 41
Modern Language Association of New South Wales, 90
most frequently used words, 72-73
Mundaneum Institute, 91
Muro, Masaru, 104

negation, negatives, 138; use of un-, 24, 69, 131
Nehru, Pandit, 90, 104
Neurath, Dr. Otto, 91
Nidditch, Dr. P. H., 106, 107
nonsense statements, 133
normal English, 56
notation in music, 14
nouns, 19-23, 37, 122-24; general, 124-26; pictured, 19-20, 123-24;
     as names of substances, 19-20, 125
number, forms for, see plurals
number of words used, see vocabularies
numbers, system of, 14
numerals, 286, 265

Okakura, Y., 10, 88
onomatopoeia, 37
operations, 25; see verbs; diagram of, 27
opposites, 24, 37-48, 130-131
Orthological Institute, The, 102, 103; Peking, 88
owner-forms, see possessive

Paget, Sir Richard, 12
panoptic, 12, 19, 40; panoptic definition, 111, 54-55
Panopticon, 7, 40, 55
parallel translation, 67-68
particles, 6, 37
passive, 171
Payne Fund, 88, 102
phonetic factors, 7, 12
physics, 6, 9, 11, 392
Pickford, Mary, 95
pictured things 19-22, 123-24
pictures, 19; picture courses, 43; picture language, 79
plural forms, 57, 127
pointing adjectives and pronouns, see demonstratives
possessive adjectives, 142, 170
possessive pronouns, 170
Prague, 91
prepositions, 29-32; at end of sentence, 34
present participle, 29
pronouns, 32, 37, 148-49, 171- 73; table of, 170
pronunciation, 35, 36
proper names, 37
Purcell, Dr., 89

qualifies, see adjectives
questions, 34, 166-67

radio, 65, 88, 91, 93
records, see gramophone
relative adverbs, 161
relative pronouns, 162-63
rhythm of English, 63-65, 90
Richards, I. A., 88, 104, 107, 112
rival word-lists, 72-73
Rockefeller Foundation, 88
Romance languages, 17
Roosevelt, President Franklin Delano, on Basic, 100-01, 115-16
root sense, 57, 60
Rossiter, Philip, 84
Royal Society of Arts, 97
Russia, see U.S.S.R.
Russian, 49

science, 6, 9, 14, 51, 75-82, 98, 236-237, 389-90
science abstracts, 81
science internationals, 36
sentence, 33
sequence of tenses, 29
shall and will, 28, 29
Shaw, George Bernard, 102-03
Singapore, 89
slang, 37
Spanish, 49
specialization, 21; special senses, 188-89
spelling, 12, 13; spelling reform, 12
Standard English, 108; Basic in relation to, 15; Basic links with, 43-44;
     how to translate into Basic, 223-30
statements, 132, 135, 153-56
statistics, 49-50
Steed, Wickham, 67
stress in English, 64-65
subjunctive, 28
substances, 125, 234
suffixes: -er, -ing, -ed, with adjectives, 24, 180;
     with nouns, 21-23, 37, 176-81, 230-81;
     -er, -est, 24, 174-76; -ly, 57, 147
supplementary lists for developing from Basic to full English, see expansion

Takata, T., 88
talking pictures, 50, 95
teaching material, 30, 39-42, 62, 74
tenses, see verbs
things, names of, see  nouns
time, 14
Times Educational Supplement, 105
trade, 52
translation bureaus, 108

Ullman, Professor Stephen, 106
uninformed criticism, 105-06
universal language, 5, 8, 11, 37
U.S.S.R., 90, 108

verbs, 15, 43, 73; conjugation of, 29, 37, 48, 169, 171-73;
     elimination of, 4, 11, 24-29, 144-146
Vertical Translation, 104, 107
vocabularies, size of, 7, 8, 9, 51
supplementary, see word-lists

Walpole, H., 91
Wells, H. C., 95, 99, 392
will, see shall
word-groups, see idioms
word-lists, special supplementary: Bible, 441; biology, 393;
     general science, 391; physics-chemistry, 392; verse, 441
word-magic, 16-17, 38
words, number of, see vocabularies
word-order, 7, 33-34, 47, 139, 150, 153, 155, 166
word-wheel, see Panopticon 
Wynburne, 104, 107

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