Returning to England, he was educated at various private schools, and in 1899 matriculated at the University of Oxford.
During this time he also worked as an assistant in the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary.
In 1904 he was appointed lecturer in English at the University of Bonn, where he wrote and published his thesis A history of ablaut in the strong verbs from Caxton to the end of the Elizabethan period (1910).
After coming to America and gaining a professorship at the University of Michigan,[1] he wrote many other books, including Foreign influences on Middle English, and Construction in Shakespeare.
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