Acknowledgements
I wish to express my gratitude to Prof. M.C.J. van Rensburg of the Department of Afrikaans at the University of Pretoria (formerly of the University of the Orange Free State) for his invaluable assistance in researching this material. I am also indebted to the library staff at the U.O.F.S., where the bulk of the research was done in 1983, for their willingness to help at all times. This work would never have been undertaken, however, had my employer, the University of Melbourne, not been prepared to release me from my duties in 1983 and 1985. I thank that university as I do the University of Natal at Pietermaritzburg and the University of Cape Town for putting their library facilities at my disposal in 1985 and thereby assisting in the completion of the manuscript. I would also like to express a special thanks to Mr. P.J.M. Terblanche of Fauresmith for lending me his extensive collection of old newspaper and magazine clippings on anglicisms, and finally, I thank too all the wonderful friends I have made in South Africa since 1983 for their part in making my various sojourns as pleasurable as they have been and for tolerating the volley of questions about Afrikaans with which I bombarded them from the moment of first acquaintance.
The financial assistance awarded to me by the Human Sciences Research Council in 1985 is hereby also gratefully acknowledged. All opinions expressed and all conclusions made in this work are those of the author and must not be regarded as those of the HSRC.
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