Grimm’s Law affected the

At the beginning

of Middle English short vowels were

The London dialect, comprising predominantly features

of the 

In the 11th the levelling of endings grew much more intensive,

which was partly due to the

Romans made their way conquering people through

France and into England. They established settlements in towns and pushed the

After the introduction of

many monastic

schools were set up in Britain 

Obsolescence of many medieval concepts and customs,

e.g., OE werƷ eld was a fine paid by the murderer to the family of the murdered

man; the word became obsolete 

With the loss of case inflections the role of the

  grew

ever more important 

The PDP pronoun SHE

seems to derive from a blend of OE

The influx of ________ words – as well as the later

borrowing of Latin words – is one of the main historical reasons for the

abundance of synonyms in ModE