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... tongue ; I attempt nothing more than to trace the way in which one special dialect took the lead in our island ; I also try to point out the earliest instances of corruptions in our speech . Hence atten- tion must be given to the North ...
... tongue ; I attempt nothing more than to trace the way in which one special dialect took the lead in our island ; I also try to point out the earliest instances of corruptions in our speech . Hence atten- tion must be given to the North ...
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... tongue ; much as the changes in English Architecture for four hundred and fifty years may be traced by the man who visits in succession the Cathe- drals of Durham , Lincoln , Exeter , and Winchester ; or as the improvements in the ...
... tongue ; much as the changes in English Architecture for four hundred and fifty years may be traced by the man who visits in succession the Cathe- drals of Durham , Lincoln , Exeter , and Winchester ; or as the improvements in the ...
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... tongue , without having always before him the gram- matical works of Dr. Morris and Dr. March , must be the greatest of fools . I have followed Dr. March in my first Chapter , and have also consulted Bopp , Guest , Bosworth , Wedgwood ...
... tongue , without having always before him the gram- matical works of Dr. Morris and Dr. March , must be the greatest of fools . I have followed Dr. March in my first Chapter , and have also consulted Bopp , Guest , Bosworth , Wedgwood ...
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... tongue . When specifying English words , I have almost wholly con- fined myself to terms in use in 1873 ; of these , about fifteen hundred , I think , occur in my pages . In a work like this , ranging over the monuments of twelve ...
... tongue . When specifying English words , I have almost wholly con- fined myself to terms in use in 1873 ; of these , about fifteen hundred , I think , occur in my pages . In a work like this , ranging over the monuments of twelve ...
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... tongue : some change or other is always at work . Caxton and his sons have ruled our spelling for the last four hundred years ; in the instance referred to above , they may justify their alteration by Wickliffe's verb evangelise . I ...
... tongue : some change or other is always at work . Caxton and his sons have ruled our spelling for the last four hundred years ; in the instance referred to above , they may justify their alteration by Wickliffe's verb evangelise . I ...
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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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