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A printed line of modern English , even if the subject is highly technical , generally contains many more words of Anglo - Saxon than of foreign origin ; and in colloquial English the proportion of native words is much higher .
A printed line of modern English , even if the subject is highly technical , generally contains many more words of Anglo - Saxon than of foreign origin ; and in colloquial English the proportion of native words is much higher .
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century that one dialect , the East Midland , began to rise above its rivals into the position of Standard English . Moreover , the grammar of Anglo - Saxon was in many respects widely different from the grammar of modern English .
century that one dialect , the East Midland , began to rise above its rivals into the position of Standard English . Moreover , the grammar of Anglo - Saxon was in many respects widely different from the grammar of modern English .
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V a The writers of grandiloquent English were men who , for the most part , belonged to an aristocracy of intellect . A simpler kind of prose , often much truer to native idiom , was cultivated by less learned men who had no thought of ...
V a The writers of grandiloquent English were men who , for the most part , belonged to an aristocracy of intellect . A simpler kind of prose , often much truer to native idiom , was cultivated by less learned men who had no thought of ...
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