The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 54
... 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 that now spoken by the peasants of Normandy , and perhaps still more to the French dialect which ...
... 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 that now spoken by the peasants of Normandy , and perhaps still more to the French dialect which ...
Pagina 78
... grammar , as if they had been true natives . In Chaucer the verb banish takes the Saxon prefix y- and suffix -ed : - And Brutus hath by hire chaste bloode yswore , That Tarquyn shuld ybanyshed be therefore . Legende of Goode Women . The ...
... grammar , as if they had been true natives . In Chaucer the verb banish takes the Saxon prefix y- and suffix -ed : - And Brutus hath by hire chaste bloode yswore , That Tarquyn shuld ybanyshed be therefore . Legende of Goode Women . The ...
Pagina 88
... grammar oftenest written , be- soingnes . Compare the modern French , Faites votre besogne , Do your duty . It is possible that the word busy may have had that sort of share in the production of the great English word business which may ...
... grammar oftenest written , be- soingnes . Compare the modern French , Faites votre besogne , Do your duty . It is possible that the word busy may have had that sort of share in the production of the great English word business which may ...
Pagina 105
... yat ' or ' yt ' for that . This has lasted down close to our own times : and it may be doubted whether the practice has entirely ceased even now . Ben Jonson , in The English Grammar , considered that THE AND THE Ð . 105.
... yat ' or ' yt ' for that . This has lasted down close to our own times : and it may be doubted whether the practice has entirely ceased even now . Ben Jonson , in The English Grammar , considered that THE AND THE Ð . 105.
Pagina 106
... Grammar , main- tained the contrary ; and he was followed by Jacob Grimm . Rask's argument is well worth the attention of the student ; for whatever the validity of the conclusion , it is a good sample of phonetic reasoning . It is very ...
... Grammar , main- tained the contrary ; and he was followed by Jacob Grimm . Rask's argument is well worth the attention of the student ; for whatever the validity of the conclusion , it is a good sample of phonetic reasoning . It is very ...
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