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... called the New English arose from the complete fusion of the Norman French with the speech of the common people . So long as our kings retained their continental possessions , and our nobles ruled England as a conquered country ...
... called the New English arose from the complete fusion of the Norman French with the speech of the common people . So long as our kings retained their continental possessions , and our nobles ruled England as a conquered country ...
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... called themselves English rather than Saxons . At any rate King Alfred tells us that his people called their speech English , and Robert of Gloucester says of English , " The Saxones speche yt was , and thorw hem ycome yt ys . " Bede ...
... called themselves English rather than Saxons . At any rate King Alfred tells us that his people called their speech English , and Robert of Gloucester says of English , " The Saxones speche yt was , and thorw hem ycome yt ys . " Bede ...
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... called it , or for lengthening out the line to the number of syllables required by the peculiar metre borrowed from the Italian poets , and to which the more rigid English tongue would otherwise have refused to bend ; but it was a real ...
... called it , or for lengthening out the line to the number of syllables required by the peculiar metre borrowed from the Italian poets , and to which the more rigid English tongue would otherwise have refused to bend ; but it was a real ...
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... called definite article is one , and possessive pronouns ( thus differing from the modern German usage ) , and the indefinite in all other circumstances . In Saxon each was declined , but in Chaucer the only inflection is found in the ...
... called definite article is one , and possessive pronouns ( thus differing from the modern German usage ) , and the indefinite in all other circumstances . In Saxon each was declined , but in Chaucer the only inflection is found in the ...
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... called weak verbs , or those which form the past tense by the addition of the suffix -ed , were thus declined : -- Present Tense . SINGULAR . 1. I lově , 2. Thou lov - est , 3. He lov - eth , Past Tense . 1. I lov - ede , 2. Thou lov ...
... called weak verbs , or those which form the past tense by the addition of the suffix -ed , were thus declined : -- Present Tense . SINGULAR . 1. I lově , 2. Thou lov - est , 3. He lov - eth , Past Tense . 1. I lov - ede , 2. Thou lov ...
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