Word: normans
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...very little wine be poured into a cupful of water it will at first penetrate in irregular streaks without mingling, but will gradually give a color and flavor to the whole. This was really the case with the Norman-French brought into England at the time of the Conquest. At first the French and the Anglo-Saxon existed side by side, the one as language of the Court, the higher clergy and the nobles; the other of the people. Gradually as the connexion with Frence grew weaker and at last ceased altogether, and the realm of England began to develop...
...church, and words for articles of necessity and consumption would naturally be those in which the alien would triumph over the native nomenclature. In the third class we should of course expect to find the greatest number of examples,- the producers being Saxon and the consumers Norman. Thus for instance we have ox, sheep, calf, swine, on the one hand, to designate the thing produced, all Saxon-and, on the other, beef, mutton, veal, pork, all Norman-French-to indicate the thing consumed. In the same way while the names of the various grains continue Saxon as well...
...trace in it sometimes the tide lines and driftmarks of civilization. The word chimney, for example, coming into English from the Latin by the way of Italian and French, gives us good ground for suspecting that the mass of the population of Saxon England before the Norman conquest got rid of their smoke by the less ingenious outlet of door and window. In cordwainer (still the legal designation of shoemaker) we are pointed to the fact that the people of Cordova made the best leather-a fame to which Morocco succeeded-hence Cordovannier, cordonnier, cordwainer. Cant perpetuates a sneer against...
...Hutchinson, C. D. Jackson, W. T. Jackson, G. C. Kellogg, J. T. Kilbreth, E. Long, S. H. Longley, J. A. McDonald, M. S. Mack, G. B. McGrath, C. F. M. Malley, C. I. Merrick, G. S. Miller, D. J. Mulqueeney, P. Musgrave, C. Nichols, G. C. Niles, M. Norman, F. L. Olmsted, J. A. Pew, R. M. Pierce, C. M. Reade, E. E. Reardon, A. S. Richards, H. I. Richmond, W. T. Rosen, G. B. C. Rugg, W. H. Rush, C. L. Safford, M. L. Sand, J. C. Sharp, C. W. Shope, W. A. D. Short, J. W. Smith...
...Hutchinson, C. D. Jackson, W. T. Jackson, G. C. Kellogg, J. T. Kilbreth, E. Long, S. H. Longley, J. A. McDonald, M. S. Mack, G. B. McGrath, C. F. M. Malley, C. I. Merrick, G. S. Miller, D. J. Mulqueeney, P. Musgrave, C. Nichols, G. C. Niles, M. Norman, F. L. Olmsted, J. A. Pew, R. M. Pierce, C. M. Reade, E. E. Reardon, A. S. Richards, H. I. Richmond, W. T. Rosen, G. B. C. Rugg, W. H. Rush, C. L. Safford, M. L. Sand, J. C. Sharp, C. W. Shope, W. A. D. Short, F. S. Smith...