From Old English to Standard English: A Course Book in Language Variations Across Time
- ISBN-10
- 1349266655
- ISBN-13
- 9781349266654
- Category
- English language
- Pages
- 479
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998-06-30
- Publisher
- Macmillan International Higher Education
- Author
- Dennis Freeborn
Description
Letter thorn written like wynn (p) Letter (w) used, not wynn. ... A few drops of rain there fell great enough p is tokninge vel in pis lond po me bis men slou . this portent fell in this land when these men were slain iL ; L_) The ...
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