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... things have helped to make the Old - English names seem more strange and uncouth than they otherwise would . One is that most of the names themselves have gone out of use , so that the foreign names are now more familiar . The other is ...
... things have helped to make the Old - English names seem more strange and uncouth than they otherwise would . One is that most of the names themselves have gone out of use , so that the foreign names are now more familiar . The other is ...
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... things which seem pretty plain . E before a vowel at the beginning of words , as Eadweard , Eoforwic , was clearly sounded like y or the High - Dutch j . Thus we still write York , and Yedward is found in Shakespere , and Earl is in ...
... things which seem pretty plain . E before a vowel at the beginning of words , as Eadweard , Eoforwic , was clearly sounded like y or the High - Dutch j . Thus we still write York , and Yedward is found in Shakespere , and Earl is in ...
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... things . Thus a Frenchman , a German , and an Englishman will often call the same things by quite different names . Thus what we call a horse a Frenchman will call cheval , and a German will call it Pfera or Ross . But some languages ...
... things . Thus a Frenchman , a German , and an Englishman will often call the same things by quite different names . Thus what we call a horse a Frenchman will call cheval , and a German will call it Pfera or Ross . But some languages ...
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... into Britain , there was a savage people in the island about whom we can tell nothing , except from things which have been found in their graves . CHAPTER II . HOW BRITAIN WAS CONQUERED BY THE ROMANS 8 OLD - ENGLISH HISTORY .
... into Britain , there was a savage people in the island about whom we can tell nothing , except from things which have been found in their graves . CHAPTER II . HOW BRITAIN WAS CONQUERED BY THE ROMANS 8 OLD - ENGLISH HISTORY .
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... things worth being remembered , and who first wrote those things down in books , in order that men might remember them . There lived the old Greeks who were so famous , and the Romans and other nations of Italy who were so famous ...
... things worth being remembered , and who first wrote those things down in books , in order that men might remember them . There lived the old Greeks who were so famous , and the Romans and other nations of Italy who were so famous ...
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