NEW PERSPECTIVES ON ENGLISH HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS II -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Reference -- Chancery Standard -- References -- Cant and slang dictionaries -- References -- DOST -- References -- Image schemata and light -- References -- Loanword etymologies in the third edition of the OED -- References -- "Non olet" -- References -- Intrusive [h] in present-day English accents and (h)-insertion in medieval manuscripts -- References -- Mergers, near-mergers and phonological interpretation -- References -- New light on the verb "understand" -- References -- Homophones and the stabilization of orthography in nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century English -- References -- Kailyard, conservatism and Scots in the Statistical Accounts of Scotland -- References -- Sources -- A sociolinguistic approach to the Norse-derived words in the glosses to the Lindisfarne and Rushworth Gospels -- References -- Haplology in English adverb-formation -- References -- Uses of Scottish place-names as evidence in historical dictionaries -- References -- On the stressing of French loanwords in English -- References -- Like like love -- Abbreviations -- References -- Spirantisation and despirantisation -- References -- Subject index -- The Current Issues in Linguistic Theory series.