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Learn how to read and write Middle English, the form of English used from 1066 to 1500. Find out about the Great Vowel Shift, the final -e, and the meter of Chaucer's verse.
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Middle English grammar is very much like our own. Except for...
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Middle English saw significant changes to its vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and orthography. Writing conventions during the Middle English period varied widely. Examples of writing from this period that have survived show extensive regional variation.
English as a guide to the Middle English pronunciation (e.g. pig, edge); however, the j sound sometimes appears in Modern English as y (e.g. Middle English seggen ‘to say’). ȝ is the Middle English letter ‘yogh’. Between vowels such as a, o, and u it was pronounced like the ch in Scottish loch, but with more vibration of the vocal cords.
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Learn about the historical period, linguistic developments, and multilingual context of Middle English, from 1150 to 1500. Explore the surviving documents, regional variation, and borrowing from French, Latin, and Scandinavian.
Middle English. • Middle English Dictionary. • Corpus of Middle English prose and verse. • Concise Dictionary of Middle English (from 1150 to 1580) by Anthony Mayhew & Walter Skeat (1888) or text version.
He wrote his Principia (1687) in Latin but his Opticks (1704) in English. English language - Middle Ages, Dialects, Grammar: One result of the Norman Conquest of 1066 was to place all four Old English dialects more or less on a level. West Saxon lost its supremacy, and the centre of culture and learning gradually shifted from Winchester to London.
