Contents.
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A.D. | page | |
Yorkshire - Durham | 203 | |
Lancashire | 204 | |
Salop - Herefordshire | 205 | |
Gloucestershire - Irish Pale | 206 | |
Somersetshire | 207 | |
Oxfordshire - Kent | 208 | |
Middlesex | 209 | |
Bedfordshire | 210 | |
Tables - Words akin to Dutch and German | 211 | |
Scandinavian words of the Fourteenth Century | 212 | |
Celtic words - Dutch words | 213 | |
Scandinavian words of the Fifteenth Century | 214 |
the inroad of french words into england.
Harm done in the Thirteenth Century | 215 | |
1066. | English Poetic words die out | 216 |
French alone is in favour | 217 | |
1160. | How French words first came in | 218 |
Forty of them in use very early | 219 | |
Proper names spelt in French | 220 | |
1220. | The Ancren Riwle abounds in French | 221 |
The foreign sound oi | 222 | |
Words of Religion - The foreign j | 223 | |
Table of French words akin to English | 224 | |
English words drop in the Thirteenth Century | 225 | |
This fact explained | 226 | |
The Franciscans in England | 227 | |
1250. | Their daily work | 228 |
They bring in French words | 229 | |
The 'Luve Ron' of a friar | 230 | |
Poem by one of the Old School | 231 | |
1290. | The Kentish Sermons | 232 |
Treatise on Science | 233 | |
1300. | Coarse English Words cast aside | 234 |