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accent adjective alliteration appeared Arabic assonance become Boethius borrowed Canterbury Tales cause Celtic century chapter classical common compounds concord connexion consonants contains derived dialects Dictionary English compounds English Grammar English language English words example exist expression foreign formal French function gender Greek habit idea indicate inflexions influence Italian large number Latin and Greek latter learned Lindley Murray linguistic literature meaning meant metaphorical method Metonymy metre Middle English Modern English nation native natural nouns number of words nunciation occur Old English ordinary owing pæt phonetic phrases plural poem poet poetry Popular Latin possess possible preposition principles produced pronounced pronunciation Prosody rhymes rhythm Sanskrit Saxon Scandinavian sense sentence sound speaker speech spelling Split Infinitive spoken structure study of Latin subjunctive suffix syllable symbols tenses Teutonic thought tion tive tongue translation verb verse vocabulary vowel write written þæt
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