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... that cropped up between 1300 and 1500.1 I must apologize to those of my readers , who are unlearned , for the Latin in my text ; the truth is , that there are so many shades of meaning in our words , that I cannot thoroughly explain ...
... that cropped up between 1300 and 1500.1 I must apologize to those of my readers , who are unlearned , for the Latin in my text ; the truth is , that there are so many shades of meaning in our words , that I cannot thoroughly explain ...
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... that some competent scholar would give us a list of all those of our Teutonic words that are clearly akin to Sanscrit . Antiquam exquirite - sororem . The English bishop and the French evêque , two very modern forms of the same word ...
... that some competent scholar would give us a list of all those of our Teutonic words that are clearly akin to Sanscrit . Antiquam exquirite - sororem . The English bishop and the French evêque , two very modern forms of the same word ...
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... that doma - bo is nothing but our tame - be ; that is , I be to tame , or I shall tame . So likewise with ara - bo , or I ear be . ' English sometimes shows itself more primitive than Latin ; thus , our knot has never lost its first ...
... that doma - bo is nothing but our tame - be ; that is , I be to tame , or I shall tame . So likewise with ara - bo , or I ear be . ' English sometimes shows itself more primitive than Latin ; thus , our knot has never lost its first ...
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... that we have seem to show that the Celtic women were kept as slaves , while their husbands , the old owners of the land , were slaughtered in heaps . Garnett gives a list of nearly two hundred of these words , many of which belong to ...
... that we have seem to show that the Celtic women were kept as slaves , while their husbands , the old owners of the land , were slaughtered in heaps . Garnett gives a list of nearly two hundred of these words , many of which belong to ...
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... that they are only carrying further a corruption that began long before the Norman Conquest , and that has since that event turned thunor into thunder , and dwine into dwindle . Many in our day call a wasp a wapse , and are leave ...
... that they are only carrying further a corruption that began long before the Norman Conquest , and that has since that event turned thunor into thunder , and dwine into dwindle . Many in our day call a wasp a wapse , and are leave ...
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adjective adverbs akin Ancren Riwle Anglian become Bible called Camden Society charyte Chaucer clipped comes compiled compound corruption Crist Danelagh Danish diction Dutch Early English Text EAST MIDLAND EAST MIDLAND DIALECT employed ending England English Text Society French words German gode Greek Handlyng Synne Harrowing of Hell Havelok hevene himm Homilies hundred Icelandic idiom King later Latin Layamon letter Lincolnshire London Lord North Northern nouns obsolete Old English old words Ormulum Orrmin Participle patt Peterborough Chronicle phrase Plural poem prefix preposition prose Psalter replaces the old rimes Robert of Brunne Robert of Gloucester Sanscrit seen sense shires sone sound South Southern specimen speech Standard English substantive Teutonic words Thirteenth Century thou tongue translated turned tyme Tyndale verb wass Wickliffe wipp write written Yorkshire þat
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