The Sources of Standard English

adjective adverbs akin Ancren Riwle Anglian become Bible called Camden Society charyte Chaucer Chronicle clipped comes compiled compound corruption Crist Danelagh Danish diction Dutch Early English Text East Anglia EAST MIDLAND EAST MIDLAND DIALECT employed ending England English Text Society English words French French words German gode Handlyng Synne Havelok hevene Homilies hundred Icelandic idiom King later Latin Layamon letter Lincolnshire London Lord Morris mouths Norse Norsemen Northern nouns Old English old words Ormulum Orrmin Participle patt Peterborough Peterborough Chronicle phrase Plural poem prefix preposition prose Psalter replaces the old rimes Robert of Brunne Robert of Gloucester Romance Sanscrit Scandinavian seen sense shires sone sound South Southern English specimen speech Standard English substantive Teutonic words Thirteenth Century thou tongue translated turned tyme Tyndale verb Wickliffe write written Yorkshire þat