English Language
Bible: Influence and Translations on English language
John Wyclif of the fourteenth century (a contemporary of Chaucer) is considered the first tra…
John Wyclif of the fourteenth century (a contemporary of Chaucer) is considered the first tra…
Wren rightly observes that a language must have the pattern of tones as well as of sounds fo…
American speech and written language have developed new elements in vocabulary, phrasing, str…
Anglo-Saxon Alphabet was an adaptation of the Roman letters by early Christian missionaries f…
Spelling may be of three main types Phonetic (representing the actual sounds of the language…
In the nominative plural , the OE declensions present the same motley spectacle as the geniti…
Words that are borrowed from other languages are Loanwords . No language is entirely pure. Th…
In the process of forming new words foreign borrowing words are important in English languag…
English language is enriched by borrowings from other languages. Scandinavian, French and La…
During the, Renaissance , new Latin and Greek words were borrowed to meet the needs of techn…
Latin influenced English a great deal. Latin words that were taken over by the English duri…
Influence of French words on English Grammatical Language: As the grammatical systems of the…
Technically, old English period may be assumed to have come to an end with the Norman Conques…
Jesperson characterises the English language as positively masculine . He observes that it i…