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Contents.
A.D. | page | |
His Norse origin | 93 | |
His probable abode | 94 | |
His many corruptions | 95 | |
His new Pronouns | 96 | |
His Norse words, kept by us | 97 | |
His Prepositional compounds | 98 | |
He uses that for thilk | 99 | |
Theirs, what man, thyself | 100 | |
Forthwith, right, or, alone, same | 101 | |
He replaces œ by a | 102 | |
Change in the meaning of words | 103 | |
The Norse auxiliary mun | 104 | |
Strong Verbs corrupted into Weak | 105 | |
Hid, sicken, shown | 106 | |
Mid and niman die out | 107 | |
1200. | Specimen of East Midland Dialect | 108, 109 |
1205. | Specimen of Western Dialect | 110 |
Layamon's Brut | 111 | |
He is the last to use œ | 112 | |
The Corrupt Participle in ing | 113 | |
His Norse Words | 114 | |
The Legend of St. Margaret | 115 | |
The letters ea - The ending ful | 116 | |
1220. | The Hali Meidenhad | 117 |
The Ancren Riwle | 118 | |
The use of one for man | 119 | |
The New Relative | 120 | |
The Superlative replaced by most | 121 | |
New Norse words | 122 | |
New Low German words | 123 | |
Salopian works | 124 | |
1230. | The Bestiary | 125 |
Ou replaces u; one | 126 | |
The Genesis and Exodus | 127 | |
Drag, dray, draw - The i and oo | 128 | |
Clipping of words in East Anglia | 129 | |
Whilum, seldum, muste, these | 130 |