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... French . O. H. Ger . = Old High German . O. N. = Old Norse . Orm . Ormulum ( ed . White ) . O. Sax . = Old Saxon . Paradise Lost . P. L. P. of C. = P. of P. Pilgrimage = Wright ) . Pricke of Conscience ( ed . Morris ) . Pastime of ...
... French . O. H. Ger . = Old High German . O. N. = Old Norse . Orm . Ormulum ( ed . White ) . O. Sax . = Old Saxon . Paradise Lost . P. L. P. of C. = P. of P. Pilgrimage = Wright ) . Pricke of Conscience ( ed . Morris ) . Pastime of ...
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... French ; ( 3 ) Pro- vençal ; ( 4 ) Spanish ; ( 5 ) Portuguese ; ( 6 ) Rhaeto - Romanic ( or Roumansch ) , spoken in Southern Switzerland ; ( 7 ) Wallachian , spoken in the northern provinces of Tur key ( Wallachia and Moldavia ) . The ...
... French ; ( 3 ) Pro- vençal ; ( 4 ) Spanish ; ( 5 ) Portuguese ; ( 6 ) Rhaeto - Romanic ( or Roumansch ) , spoken in Southern Switzerland ; ( 7 ) Wallachian , spoken in the northern provinces of Tur key ( Wallachia and Moldavia ) . The ...
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... French . Even uplandish men ( or rustics ) tried to speak French in order to be thought something of , so low did the English and their language fall into disrepute . In the universities Latin or French was ordered to be used . French ...
... French . Even uplandish men ( or rustics ) tried to speak French in order to be thought something of , so low did the English and their language fall into disrepute . In the universities Latin or French was ordered to be used . French ...
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... French became familiar to the English people , and very many words found their way first in the spoken and then in the written language . But after this coalescence of the two races Norman - French became of less and less importance ...
... French became familiar to the English people , and very many words found their way first in the spoken and then in the written language . But after this coalescence of the two races Norman - French became of less and less importance ...
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... French comes indirectly , and has in very many instances undergone great change in spelling . Latin words of the fourth period are borrowed direct from the Latin , and have not suffered much alteration . A few examples will make this ...
... French comes indirectly , and has in very many instances undergone great change in spelling . Latin words of the fourth period are borrowed direct from the Latin , and have not suffered much alteration . A few examples will make this ...
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