The Sources of Standard English

adjective adverbs æfter Ælfric's akin Alfred's Ancren Riwle Anglian become Bible called charyte Chaucer clipped comes common compiled compound corruption Crist Danelagh Danes Danish diction dropped Dutch Early English Text East Anglia EAST MIDLAND EAST MIDLAND DIALECT employed ending England English Text Society French French words German gode Handlyng Synne Harrowing of Hell Havelok hevene Homilies hundred Icelandic idiom King land later Latin Layamon letter Lincolnshire Lord moche Morris mouths noht Norse Norsemen North Northern nouns Old English old words Ormulum Orrmin Peterborough Chronicle phrase Plural poem prefix preposition prose Psalter replaces the old rimes Robert of Brunne Robert of Gloucester Sanscrit Scandinavian seen sense shires sone sound South specimen speech Standard English substantive Teutonic words Thirteenth Century thou tongue translated turned tyme Tyndale verb write written Yorkshire þat