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Of particular note are some reinforcements from Old Norse (circa 850s onward): - are (displacing bēoþ, sind, and sindon) - their (displacing heora) - they (d
by jagthebeetle 4y ago
Of particular note are some reinforcements from Old Norse (circa 850s onward):
- are (displacing bēoþ, sind, and sindon)
- their (displacing heora)
- they (displacing hīe)
As a linguistic game, sounds fun. Hopefully its pupils don't take it too seriously, hem hem, e.g. William Strunk the Lesser: "Saxon is a livelier tongue than Latin, so use Anglo-Saxon words"