Word: saxonizes
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...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 itself under its single kings, the languages...
...English, terms of law, of the 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...
...only so, but we may 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...
...committee in charge of the summer schools has issued a small pamphlet containing an announcement of the courses of instruction to be offered this year. The list includes one course each in Anglo-Saxon, History and Art of Teaching, Draughting and Descriptive Geometry, Solid Geometry, Trigonometry, and Botany; two courses each in English, German, French, Psychology, Physics, and Physical Training; three courses in Engineering; four each in Chemistry and Geology, and courses at the Medical School...
...requirement of unanimity is merely a relic of the Anglo-Saxon customs. It is contrary (a) To the practice of every country except England and the United States. Forum IX, p. 314. (b) To all analogies, even in those two countries; e. g., legislative bodies, courts, etc. Forum...