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... writer of that part has used the idiom which was spoken by the people in his own time . The change by which , in grammatical endings , the older vowels a , o , u , have all passed into e , is found in High German from the beginning of ...
... writer of that part has used the idiom which was spoken by the people in his own time . The change by which , in grammatical endings , the older vowels a , o , u , have all passed into e , is found in High German from the beginning of ...
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... are foreign to the Anglo - Saxon . If we take the words of any writer as they stand in his pages , the pro- portion will be much smaller . For Robert of Glou- cester , it does not exceed four or five per THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . 37.
... are foreign to the Anglo - Saxon . If we take the words of any writer as they stand in his pages , the pro- portion will be much smaller . For Robert of Glou- cester , it does not exceed four or five per THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . 37.
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... writer and fluent versifier , but of little poetic talent . Among the prose writings of this period , the earliest is the Travels of Sir John Mandeville , composed about 1356. But more im- portant in their influence on the language were ...
... writer and fluent versifier , but of little poetic talent . Among the prose writings of this period , the earliest is the Travels of Sir John Mandeville , composed about 1356. But more im- portant in their influence on the language were ...
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... writer as they stand on his pages , we shall obtain very different ratios . The Saxon words will now be found in a large majority , varying from sixty to more than ninety per cent . of the whole number . The style of Johnson abounds in ...
... writer as they stand on his pages , we shall obtain very different ratios . The Saxon words will now be found in a large majority , varying from sixty to more than ninety per cent . of the whole number . The style of Johnson abounds in ...
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... writing , as hyrde , shepherd , cining , king , but more correctly hirde , cyning . So , too , though less often , the ... write th for þ and dh for ð . § 55. The Anglo - Saxon never uses y as a con- sonant ; but , apparently , ge , and ...
... writing , as hyrde , shepherd , cining , king , but more correctly hirde , cyning . So , too , though less often , the ... write th for þ and dh for ð . § 55. The Anglo - Saxon never uses y as a con- sonant ; but , apparently , ge , and ...
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4th Edition äfter Anglo-Saxon belong blindan Book C. S. Calverley century Chaucer consonant Crown 8vo dative declension declined dede Demy 8vo dialect Dictionary Elementary Treatise ending England ENGLISH LANGUAGE F. A. Paley Fcap forms French words genitive Geometry George Bell gode goden goden Gothic Grammar Greek helpen High German hulpe hwät idioms Indo-European inflected inflexion J. W. Donaldson Jhesus king kingen Latin Layamon lond M.A. 3rd Edition M.A. Fcap Masc modern English neut Norman number of words Ormulum participle pass passive participle peculiar perf perfect Piers Ploughman Plur plural Post 8vo preposition pres primary inflexion pronoun Prose R. C. Jebb root Saxon secondary inflexion Semi-Saxon seó sing sometimes spoken Subj syllable Teutonic languages thâ tham thät thatt thiss thou Translation verbs of primary verbs of secondary Verse vowel W. H. Besant wäs writers
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