The Sources of Standard English

adjective adverbs 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 friars German gode Handlyng Synne Harrowing of Hell Havelok hevene Homilies hundred Icelandic idiom King land later Latin Layamon letter Lincolnshire London Lord moche mouths Norsemen North Northern nouns obsolete Old English old words Ormulum Orrmin patt Percy Society Peterborough Chronicle phrase Plural poem prefix preposition prose Psalter replaces the old rimes Robert of Brunne Robert of Gloucester Romance Sanscrit 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