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Changes and specimens of the English language

Министерство образования Республики Беларусь

Учреждение образования

"Гомельский государственный университет

им. Ф. Скорины"

Филологический факультет

Курсовая работа

CHANGES AND SPECIMENS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Исполнитель:

Студентка группы К-53 Козлова Т.Е.

Гомель 2006

Содержание

• Introduction
• 1 The orthography of English
• 2 ENGLISH OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
• 3 ENGLISH OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
• 4 ENGLISH OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
• 5. ENGLISH OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY
• 6. ENGLISH OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY
• 7.ENGLISH OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY
• 8. ENGLISH, OR ANGLO-SAXON, OF THE TWELFTH CENTURY
• 9. ANGLO-SAXON OF THE ELEVENTH CENTURY, COMPARED WITH ENGLISH
• 10. ANGLO-SAXON IN THE TIME OF KING ALFRED
• Conclusion
• Literature

INTRODUCTION

"Quot enim verba, et nonnunquam in deterius, hoc, quo vivimus, saeculo, partim aliqa, partim nulla necessitate cogente, mutata sunt?"--ROB. AINSWORTH: Lat. Dict., 4to; Praef., p. xi.

In the use of language, every one chooses his words from that common stock which he has learned, and applies them in practice according to his own habits and notions. If the style of different writers of the same age is various, much greater is the variety which appears in the productions of different ages. Hence the date of a book may often be very plausibly conjectured from the peculiarities of its style. As to what is best in itself, or best adapted to the subject in hand, every writer must endeavour to become his own judge. He who, in any sort of composition, would write with a master's hand, must first apply himself to books with a scholar's diligence. He must think it worth his while to inform himself, that he may be critical. Desiring to give the student all the advantage, entertainment, and satisfaction, that can be expected from a work of this kind, I shall subjoin a few brief specimens in illustration of what has been said in the foregoing chapter. The order of time will be followed inversely; and, as Saxon characters are not very easily obtained, or very apt to be read, t