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... Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle His Life of Becket His Life of St. Brandan The Romance of Alexander The New English , where compounded 1300. Few new Teutonic idioms since this date CHAPTER III . THE RISE OF THE NEW ENGLISH . A.D. 1303 ...
... Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle His Life of Becket His Life of St. Brandan The Romance of Alexander The New English , where compounded 1300. Few new Teutonic idioms since this date CHAPTER III . THE RISE OF THE NEW ENGLISH . A.D. 1303 ...
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... Robert's words need explanation Gradual loss of Old English Words Table of Words , Obsolete and Romance 1303. French brought in by Robert of Brunne Jolly , party , divers , nice 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 CHAPTER V. THE NEW ...
... Robert's words need explanation Gradual loss of Old English Words Table of Words , Obsolete and Romance 1303. French brought in by Robert of Brunne Jolly , party , divers , nice 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 CHAPTER V. THE NEW ...
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... Robert turning aside from his wrangles with the Roman Court and from the studies that made the name of Lincolniensis known throughout Christendom , and hearing his Mercian flock repeat these same lines . THE EAST MIDLAND DIALECT ...
... Robert turning aside from his wrangles with the Roman Court and from the studies that made the name of Lincolniensis known throughout Christendom , and hearing his Mercian flock repeat these same lines . THE EAST MIDLAND DIALECT ...
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... Robert with here loverd ferde ' ( egit ) . 1 One of the earliest instances I remember of the modern use of this good old word , which is thought to be slangy , occurs in Miss Eden's Letters from India , about 1839. She calls one of the ...
... Robert with here loverd ferde ' ( egit ) . 1 One of the earliest instances I remember of the modern use of this good old word , which is thought to be slangy , occurs in Miss Eden's Letters from India , about 1839. She calls one of the ...
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... Robert of Gloucester wrote his Chronicle about 1300 , or not much earlier , since he speaks of St. Louis as canonised . He shows us a few new idioms , especially as regards the word an , our one . pe more pat a man con , pe more worp he ...
... Robert of Gloucester wrote his Chronicle about 1300 , or not much earlier , since he speaks of St. Louis as canonised . He shows us a few new idioms , especially as regards the word an , our one . pe more pat a man con , pe more worp he ...
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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 žat
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