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Contents.


A.D. page
His Norse origin 93
His probable abode 94
His many corruptions 95
His new Pronouns 96
His Norse words, kept by us 97
His Prepositional compounds 98
He uses that for thilk 99
Theirs, what man, thyself 100
Forthwith, right, or, alone, same 101
He replaces œ by a 102
Change in the meaning of words 103
The Norse auxiliary mun 104
Strong Verbs corrupted into Weak 105
Hid, sicken, shown 106
Mid and niman die out 107
1200. Specimen of East Midland Dialect 108, 109
1205. Specimen of Western Dialect 110
Layamon's Brut 111
He is the last to use œ 112
The Corrupt Participle in ing 113
His Norse Words 114
The Legend of St. Margaret 115
The letters ea - The ending ful 116
1220. The Hali Meidenhad 117
The Ancren Riwle 118
The use of one for man 119
The New Relative 120
The Superlative replaced by most 121
New Norse words 122
New Low German words 123
Salopian works 124
1230. The Bestiary 125
Ou replaces u; one 126
The Genesis and Exodus 127
Drag, dray, draw - The i and oo 128
Clipping of words in East Anglia 129
Whilum, seldum, muste, these 130