Handbook of the History of the English Language: For the Use of Teacher and Student

accent adjective Ælfric alphabet Angles Anglian Anglo-Norman Anglo-Saxon become Beowulf branch Broken Saxon called Chaucer composition corruption Cott Cynewulf Danes declension difference ealle Early English EARLY ENGLISH PERIOD edition employed endings England English language extant final Finno-Tataric foreign forms French words Frisian Gender German gerund grammar Greek Grein heom heora hevene inflexions instance Irish Keltic King Latin latter Layamon lines literature Low German Middle English Midland Modern English Morris native Norman Norse northern Northumbrian nouns occurs Old English origin Ormulum orthography participle passage past peculiar perhaps plur plural poem poetry present pronouns pronunciation prose referred remains rhyming Robert Mannyng Ruthwell Cross Saxon Chronicle Scotch sing Southern dialect specimen speech spoken language structure swift syllable synthetic language Teutonic thirteenth century tion tongue translation tribes verb verse vocabulary vowel West Saxon writers written þæt þin