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... changed more in a thousand years than the High - Dutch or German has . The chief points of change are two . First , we have lost nearly all our inflexions , that is the endings which mark genders , cases , and the like ,
... changed more in a thousand years than the High - Dutch or German has . The chief points of change are two . First , we have lost nearly all our inflexions , that is the endings which mark genders , cases , and the like ,
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... German ; but it must always be remembered that High - Dutch is not the tongue nearest to our own . English is in truth a form of the Low - Dutch , the language which in different forms spreads from Flanders right away to the Baltic ...
... German ; but it must always be remembered that High - Dutch is not the tongue nearest to our own . English is in truth a form of the Low - Dutch , the language which in different forms spreads from Flanders right away to the Baltic ...
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... 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 Pferd or Ross . But some languages are much more like one another ...
... 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 Pferd or Ross . But some languages are much more like one another ...
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... German are yet more like one another . When you begin to learn German , you will find that all the commonest words , man , wife , child , house , father , mother , bread , water , ox , sheep , are either exactly the same in German and ...
... German are yet more like one another . When you begin to learn German , you will find that all the commonest words , man , wife , child , house , father , mother , bread , water , ox , sheep , are either exactly the same in German and ...
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... German . The other two languages spoken in the British Islands are the Welsh , of which I have already said something , and the Irish . Wales , the land of the Welsh , lies to the west of Eng- land , and we often reckon it as part of ...
... German . The other two languages spoken in the British Islands are the Welsh , of which I have already said something , and the Irish . Wales , the land of the Welsh , lies to the west of Eng- land , and we often reckon it as part of ...
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