The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 24
... continued to designate our country , tongue , and nation . The name of England is confined by geographic limits ; but the name of ENGLISH has widened with the growing area of the countries , colonies and depen- dencies that are peopled ...
... continued to designate our country , tongue , and nation . The name of England is confined by geographic limits ; but the name of ENGLISH has widened with the growing area of the countries , colonies and depen- dencies that are peopled ...
Pagina 41
... continued to be spoken by the masses who could speak no other ; and here and there a secluded student continued to write in it . But its honours and emoluments were gone , and a gloomy period of depression lay before the Saxon language ...
... continued to be spoken by the masses who could speak no other ; and here and there a secluded student continued to write in it . But its honours and emoluments were gone , and a gloomy period of depression lay before the Saxon language ...
Pagina 54
... continued . Trevisa says it was a new thing in 1385 for children to construe into English in the grammar schools , where they had been used to do their construing into French . If we ask what manner of French it was , we must point to ...
... continued . Trevisa says it was a new thing in 1385 for children to construe into English in the grammar schools , where they had been used to do their construing into French . If we ask what manner of French it was , we must point to ...
Pagina 105
... continued to be written be and pat or pt . This habit lasted on long after its original meaning was forgotten . The got confused with the character y at a time when they was closed a - top , and then people wrote ' ye ' for the and ...
... continued to be written be and pat or pt . This habit lasted on long after its original meaning was forgotten . The got confused with the character y at a time when they was closed a - top , and then people wrote ' ye ' for the and ...
Pagina 111
... driven the fashion out ) the letter E is called eh , like hay without the h , or like the French è ouvert somewhat continued . This may be derived from the period of French tuition ; or it may be that Devonshire A AND E. III.
... driven the fashion out ) the letter E is called eh , like hay without the h , or like the French è ouvert somewhat continued . This may be derived from the period of French tuition ; or it may be that Devonshire A AND E. III.
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