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Contents.
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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

CHAPTER IV.

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