• Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc, pronounced [ˈeŋɡliʃ]), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and...
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    The Old English Bulldog is an extinct breed of dog. The Old English Bulldog was compact, broad and muscular, as reflected in the painting Crib and Rosa...
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    The Old English Sheepdog is a large breed of dog that emerged in England from early types of herding dog. Obsolete names for the breed include Shepherd's...
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  • Old English literature refers to poetry (alliterative verse) and prose written in Old English in early medieval England, from the 7th century to the decades...
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  • grammar of Old English differs greatly from Modern English, predominantly being much more inflected. As a Germanic language, Old English has a morphological...
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  • IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Old English phonology is the pronunciation system of Old English, the Germanic language spoken on Great Britain...
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  • a southern dialect of Old English spoken in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Kent. It was one of four dialect-groups of Old English, the other three being...
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    debated. Old English evolved into Middle English, which in turn evolved into Modern English. Particular dialects of Old and Middle English also developed...
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  • of Old English spoken in the Anglian Kingdom of Northumbria. Together with Mercian, Kentish and West Saxon, it forms one of the sub-categories of Old English...
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  • Look up Old English in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Old English was an early form of the English language spoken by Anglo-Saxons until the 12th century...
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    Great Britain: Carlisle Old English Game and Oxford Old English Game. There is also an Old English Game bantam. The Old English Game has many colour variants...
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    The Old English Latin alphabet generally consisted of about 24 letters, and was used for writing Old English from the 8th to the 12th centuries. Of these...
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  • Old English alphabet may refer to: Anglo-Saxon runes (futhorc), a runic alphabet used to write Old English from the 5th century Old English Latin alphabet...
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  • English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots...
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  • symbols. Words of Old Norse origin have entered the English language, primarily from the contact between Old Norse and Old English during colonisation...
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    The Wanderer is an Old English poem preserved only in an anthology known as the Exeter Book. It comprises 115 lines of alliterative verse. As is often...
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    Blackletter (redirect from Old English Text)
    Fraktur. Blackletter is sometimes referred to as Old English, but it is not to be confused with the Old English language, which predates blackletter by many...
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  • Old English metre is the conventional name given to the poetic metre in which English language poetry was composed in the Anglo-Saxon period. The best-known...
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    until the late 15th century. The English language underwent distinct variations and developments following the Old English period. Scholarly opinion varies...
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  • The Old English Boethius is an Old English translation/adaptation of the sixth-century Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius, dating from between c. 880...
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  • Old English District was one of the districts of Tryon County when it was set off from Albany County, in the American colony of New York, on March 12...
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  • words coming from French often retain a higher register than words of Old English origin, and they are considered by some to be more posh, elaborate, sophisticated...
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    The Old English Baron is an early Gothic novel by the English author Clara Reeve. It was first published under this title in 1778, although it had anonymously...
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    The Old English Black (also known as Lincolnshire Black) is an extinct horse breed. During the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066, the Normans may have...
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  • Northumbrian, it was one of the two Anglian dialects. The other two dialects of Old English were Kentish and West Saxon. Each of those dialects was associated with...
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    and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet. Old English was first written down using the Latin alphabet during the 7th century...
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    may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of runes. The Old English rune poem, dated to the 8th or 9th century, has stanzas on 29 Anglo-Saxon...
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    The Dictionary of Old English (DOE) is a dictionary of the Old English language, published by the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, under...
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  • § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The phonological system of the Old English language underwent many changes during the period of its existence. These...
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    The Old English Hexateuch, or Aelfric Paraphrase, is the collaborative project of the late Anglo-Saxon period that translated the six books of the Hexateuch...
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