What the F by Benjamin K. Bergen
Author:Benjamin K. Bergen
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780465096480
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2016-07-26T16:00:00+00:00
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A thousand years ago, people living in the British Isles spoke various manifestations of Old English, the language that would evolve over the subsequent millennium into what we now know as Modern English. In terms of its words, what they mean, how they’re pronounced, and how they’re arranged grammatically, Old English is probably just as foreign to the contemporary speaker of English as is German or Dutch. For example, take the Old English version of the Lord’s Prayer (to jog your memory, this is the one that now goes “Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name,” and so on). In Old English, it looks like this, in its entirety:
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