The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 19
... is the common word for river in Wales to this day . So again with regard to that large class of river - names which are merely variations of the one name Isca - Usk , Ux , Wis- in Wisbech C 2 OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . 19.
... is the common word for river in Wales to this day . So again with regard to that large class of river - names which are merely variations of the one name Isca - Usk , Ux , Wis- in Wisbech C 2 OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . 19.
Pagina 36
... regard to their place and office in the language . Can . We find this verb used in Saxon in a manner very like its present employment . But when we examine into it , we find the sense attached to it was not as now , that of possibility ...
... regard to their place and office in the language . Can . We find this verb used in Saxon in a manner very like its present employment . But when we examine into it , we find the sense attached to it was not as now , that of possibility ...
Pagina 61
... regard it as in a special manner one of the dawning lights of the standard language . In Chaucer and Gower the French words are often so Anglicised , that a reader might pass them for pure Saxon . Not so in the Romance of King Alexander ...
... regard it as in a special manner one of the dawning lights of the standard language . In Chaucer and Gower the French words are often so Anglicised , that a reader might pass them for pure Saxon . Not so in the Romance of King Alexander ...
Pagina 65
... regard him little . But the low men bold to English , and to their own speech notwithstanding . I ween there be no countries in all the world that do not hold to their own speech , except England only . But undoubtedly it is well to ...
... regard him little . But the low men bold to English , and to their own speech notwithstanding . I ween there be no countries in all the world that do not hold to their own speech , except England only . But undoubtedly it is well to ...
Pagina 66
... regard to the popular rage for speaking French . He says : " This was moche used tofore the grete deth , but sith it is somdele chaunged . ' But the most important date is 1362 , when the English language was re - installed in its ...
... regard to the popular rage for speaking French . He says : " This was moche used tofore the grete deth , but sith it is somdele chaunged . ' But the most important date is 1362 , when the English language was re - installed in its ...
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