Some of the material of What Is English? Has appeared in special articles for educational publications, but the chapters are' in no sense a set of reprinted articles. Thanks are due to the following journals for permission to adapt or use what they published: English Journal: Intensive Spelling, October, 1914; Punctator Gingriens, September, 1915; We Must Not Be Enemies, February, 1916; The Bottomless Pond of oes, March, 1916; The Scale Illusion, February, 1917; draft of the report of the Committee on the Mechanics of Writing (with Mrs. G. B. Scott and Earl Hudelson), February, 1919; The Next C. G. N. Report, November, 1919 The New Knowledge of Spelling, February, 1921. Education: English Apparatus, November, 1915; Accuracy First, October, 1917. Educational Review: What Is English? February, 1916. The English Leaflet: Inculcated Love, February, 1915; Defending Camelot, October, 1916; Critical Phantoms in Macbeth, June, 1918. The School Review: A Platform of Grammar, April, 1916. Bulletin of the Illinois Association: Exploring the Comma, November, 1916. Scribner's Magazine: Poking Fun at Grammar, February, 1922. School and Home: Phantom and Fact in English.

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