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a highly inflected language with a largely Germanic vocabulary
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The poem tells the story of Beowulf, nephew of Hygelac, king of the Geats, a people in southeastern Sweden. This poem is written in Old English
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introduces the Anglo-Saxons through their chronicles, laws, letters, charters, and poetry. Written in Old English.
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The Normans conquered England and brought a kind of French with them.
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The best known writer of Middle English, Geoffrey Chaucer, wrote in the second half of the 14th century
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One of the reasons Chaucer is so important is that he made the decision to write in English and not French.
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A chage in pronunciation started the shift from Middle English to Early Modern English.
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The novel Romeo and Juliet written by Shakespeare was published in 1595, and written in what is considered Early Modern English
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A narritive poem written by WIlliam Shakespreare, Shakespeare wrote in Early Modern English
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The main diffrence between Early Modern English and Late Modern english is vocabulary.
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When slang in music was created poeple began to see how one word had different meanings.
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Today American English is influened by Tv, Music, Trade, and Technology.
