The Sources of Standard English

adjective adverbs æfter akin Ancren Riwle Anglian become Bible called Century chapter Chaucer clipped cloth College comes compiled compound corruption Crist Crown 8vo Danelagh Danish Dutch Early English Text East Anglia EAST MIDLAND EAST MIDLAND DIALECT Edition elementary employed England English Text Society English words fcap French French words German gode Gospels Greek Handlyng Synne hevene Homilies hundred Icelandic idiom King language later Latin Layamon letter Lincolnshire London Lord modern Norse Norsemen North Northern Old English old words Ormulum Orrmin patt Peterborough Chronicle phrase Plural poem prefix preposition prose Psalter replaces the old rimes Robert Robert of Brunne Robert of Gloucester Sanscrit Scandinavian Schools seen sense shires sone sound South specimen speech Standard English substantive Teutonic words thou tongue translated treatise turned Tyndale verb Wickliffe write written Yorkshire þat