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... England , we may still hear dirsh thrush ; drash = thrash . = The aspirate dental th has become s in the third person singular of verbs , as he loveth he loves . But this was once a dialectical peculiarity . - 18. There are other ...
... England , we may still hear dirsh thrush ; drash = thrash . = The aspirate dental th has become s in the third person singular of verbs , as he loveth he loves . But this was once a dialectical peculiarity . - 18. There are other ...
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... England in connection with the country before the middle of the fifth century . 20. According to the statements of Bede , the Teutonic invaders first came over in A.D. 449 , and for about 100 years the invasion may be said to have been ...
... England in connection with the country before the middle of the fifth century . 20. According to the statements of Bede , the Teutonic invaders first came over in A.D. 449 , and for about 100 years the invasion may be said to have been ...
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... England , Scotland , the Hebrides , and Ireland . In the ninth century they gained a permanent footing in England , and subdued the kingdoms of Northumbria , East Anglia , and Mercia . In the eleventh century Danish sovereigns were ...
... England , Scotland , the Hebrides , and Ireland . In the ninth century they gained a permanent footing in England , and subdued the kingdoms of Northumbria , East Anglia , and Mercia . In the eleventh century Danish sovereigns were ...
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... England the old forms were kept up to a much later period , and many of them have not yet died out . There are numerous traces of Scandinavian words- ( 1 ) in the local nomenclature of England ; ( 2 ) in Old English literature of the ...
... England the old forms were kept up to a much later period , and many of them have not yet died out . There are numerous traces of Scandinavian words- ( 1 ) in the local nomenclature of England ; ( 2 ) in Old English literature of the ...
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... England . As these tribes are designated by old writers Angles , in contra- distinction to the Jutes and Saxons , this dialect is called Anglian . The chief points of grammatical difference between the Northern and Southern dialects are ...
... England . As these tribes are designated by old writers Angles , in contra- distinction to the Jutes and Saxons , this dialect is called Anglian . The chief points of grammatical difference between the Northern and Southern dialects are ...
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adjectives adverb Ayenbite become Cambridge century we find Chaucer cloth cognate College compounds connecting vowel consonants Crown 8vo dative declension demonstrative ELEMENTARY ending Extra fcap fcap feminine fourteenth century FOURTH PERIOD French gender genitive Goth Gothic Grammar Greek HISTORY indefinite infinitive inflections inflexion language later forms Latin masc masculine Midland modern English NEUT neuter Northern dialect nouns numerous O.E. we find O.Fr O.H.Ger occurs Old English older oldest English originally Ormulum participle passive participle Past Indicative past tense PERF period we find plural preposition PRES Professor Robert of Brunne Robert of Gloucester root Sansk Sanskrit Schools Second Edition SECOND PERIOD Shakespeare silf Sing singular sometimes Southern Spenser stem strong verbs Subjunctive substantives suffix syllable Teutonic THIRD PERIOD thirteenth and fourteenth thirteenth century thou TREATISE twelfth vowel weak verbs West Midland writers þæt þat
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