Word: nothern
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Saxon tongue, we pass over a period when French words came in great quantities, the time of the Norman Conquest. This foreign tongue brought with it many alterations to the native tongue. Just so the Latin language was brought into the territory we now call France and in the nothern part, after successive alterations that affected the pronunciation, inflections and syntax, and after borrowing from the speech of the Germanic Franks, has become the French language. We sometimes speak of AngloSaxon as old English; with the same right we may call modern French Latin. We may do this with even...
Spenser was not born of a rich family, but in 1569 he went to Cambridge University, where he spent seven years. After that he lived in nothern England, where he fell in love with one Rosalind. His suit was not fortunate, so he returned to London and there became very intimate with Sir Philip Sidney. Chance carried him to Ireland and here he was forced to pass most of his time, away from the London that he loved. Queen Elizabeth granted him a large estate near Cock, but he was never popular there and was eventually driven out. His castle...
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