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| A.D. | page | |
| Corruptions in the Saxon Chronicle | 53 | |
| Slow change from Old to New | 54 | |
| Interest attached to Peterborough | 55 | |
| 1120. | Its Forged Charters | 56 |
| The letters h and g replaced | 57 | |
| The Dative replaces the Accusative | 58 | |
| Break-up of Case-endings | 59 | |
| New use of Prepositions | 60 | |
| Clipping of Infinitives and Participles | 61 | |
| The Northern, Midland, and Southern Shibboleths | 62 | |
| New Teutonic words crop up | 63 | |
| Scandinavian words come in | 64 | |
| 1120. | Specimen of East Midland Dialect | 65, 66 |
| 1120. | Specimen of Southern Dialect | 67 |
| A later Version of Ælfric's Homilies | 68 | |
| O and ch replace a and c | 69 | |
| New Relatives - The letter ʓ | 70 | |
| Lines on the Grave | 71 | |
| 1160. | The Peterborough Chronicle | 72 |
| Southern corruptions appear | 73 | |
| K, qu, and gh are found | 74 | |
| 1160. | Specimen of East Midland Dialect | 75, 76 |
| 1160. | Specimen of Southern Dialect | 77, 78 |
| Early Rimes - The Sound au | 79 | |
| V and w replace f and g | 80 | |
| Sh replaces sc | 81 | |
| Change in Nouns and Verbs | 82 | |
| Change in Meaning of Words | 83 | |
| 1170. | The Moral Ode - The Worcester Manuscript | 84 |
| Ou replaces o - The new besiden | 85 | |
| The Hatton Gospels | 86 | |
| 1180. | The Essex Homilies - The form ie | 87 |
| Clipping of Words - New phrases | 88 | |
| The Masculine and Neuter Article confused | 89 | |
| New Norse words | 90 | |
| 1200. | King Alfred's Proverbs | 91 |
| Orrmin | 92 |
