History of English; a Sketch of the Origin And Development of the English Language With Examples, Down to the Present Day
History of English; a Sketch of the Origin And Development of the English Language With Examples, Down to the Present Day
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Lowland Scotch keeps fra in its original form.
* Kington Oliphant, Old arid Middle English^ p. 239.
Digitized by Google 244 History of English fis at all events not more inflected than Chaucer's 200 years later ; but then Chaucer's dialect, though it is a kind of East Midland, has much more in common with Southern English, which was a far more conservative dialect. Thus with Orm we have got considerably nearer to Modern English. What makes his language look so strange is — (1) His peculiar tric...k of spelling, which is, after all, nothing but marks of quantity, just as if he had written ic, shmw^n^ df, (2) The very large number of Old English words in his poem for which we have now substituted Norman-French words, as the * glosses ' to our examples show.
^ The old theory of the development of Modern English was ' that its inflexions were worn down by contact with French after the Norman Conquest. We have already seen that the Conquest did affect them, by giving the popular careless speech an open field, because it destroyed the position of English as a cultivated and literary language.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Lowland Scotch keeps fra in its original form.
* Kington Oliphant, Old arid Middle English^ p. 239.
Digitized by Google 244 History of English fis at all events not more inflected than Chaucer's 200 years later ; but then Chaucer's dialect, though it is a kind of East Midland, has much more in common with Southern English, which was a far more conservative dialect. Thus with Orm we have got considerably nearer to Modern English. What makes his language look so strange is — (1) His peculiar tric...k of spelling, which is, after all, nothing but marks of quantity, just as if he had written ic, shmw^n^ df, (2) The very large number of Old English words in his poem for which we have now substituted Norman-French words, as the * glosses ' to our examples show.
^ The old theory of the development of Modern English was ' that its inflexions were worn down by contact with French after the Norman Conquest. We have already seen that the Conquest did affect them, by giving the popular careless speech an open field, because it destroyed the position of English as a cultivated and literary language.
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