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English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day

CHAPTER VIII
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The references, such as "5.

15," are to the chapters and verses of St Matthew's Gospel, as printed in my edition of _The Holy Gospels, in Anglo-Saxon, Northumbrian, and Old Mercian Versions, synoptically arranged_ (Cambridge, 1871-87).

The first column below gives the Modern English form, the second the Old Mercian form (with references), and the third the Anglo-Saxon or Wessex form: MODERN OLD MERCIAN WESSEX (A.S.) all all, 5.

15 eall are arun, 19.

28 (_not used_) betwixt betwix, 27.


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