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Cppo Posted 19 years ago
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What do you know about the history of English?

1b00I'm trying to research older languages, which have influenced modern English. So, if any of you know about 01i00Scandinavian02i00, 01i00Baltic02i00, or any other languages which helped create the English today, please, share your info about the subject. 02b02br
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0 Hi Cppo02br 02br 00Welcome to English Forums. [/url] A link to Middle English is on the right-hand side of the page. org/wiki/Old_English_language

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0 Hi Cppo02br
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00Welcome to English Forums. You'll find information about Old English by clicking [url=05000]here.[/url] A link to Middle English is on the right-hand side of the page. 02br
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0 The Baltic languages are not closely related to Old English. 0-
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0 It's annoying when you read texts that use words such thy, thine, thee, thou,.. I have never been able to get used to it. 0-
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0 >> It's annoying when you read texts that use words such thy, thine, thee, thou,.. I have never been able to get used to it. 02<<
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00That's actually not Old English. That's Early Modern English. In Old English they were totatlly different. "Thou" was "þu". 0-
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0 Some of the Scandinavian languages have had an effect on the development of English. If you google 'the Danelaw' you will see that Norwegian and Danish Vikings were in control of a large area of north and east England back in the 11th Century. This led to Old Norse giving many 'loan words' to English and a strong influence on people's names, place-names, and the dialect of the area, even up to
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