The Sources of Standard English

adjective æfter Ælfric's akin Ancren Riwle Anglian becomes beon Century clipped compiled compound corruption Crist Danelagh Danes Danish Dative Dorset dropped Dutch Early English Text East Anglia EAST MIDLAND EAST MIDLAND DIALECT employed England English Text Society Essex Five Burghs French words German gode heom hevene himm Homilies Humber hundred Icelandic idiom land later Latin Layamon letter Lincolnshire lingers Mercian modern Morris noht Norse words Norsemen North Northern Old English old words Ormulum Orrmin Past Participle patt Peterborough Chronicle phrase poem prefix preposition Present Plural Psalter replaces the old rimes Robert of Brunne Sanscrit Scandinavian words Scotch seen sense shires sometimes sone sound South Southern English specimen speech Standard English substantive Teutonic words tongue translated turned verb vowels wæron wass wipp write written Yorkshire þat دو