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Sentence Examples Indeed, the use of alliteration in Old English poetry and in Piers Ploughman might also have influenced his poetic style. Many of the events are legendary and bear similarities to other Germanic historical and mythological literature in Old English, Norse and German. And though it only lists the runestaves of the Younger Futhark, it appears alongside an Old English futhorc. Of the five inflectional cases which are commonly ascribed to the Old English noun, the instrumental is the one least obvious. Her expression immediately softened at the sight of me but turned hard once more after spotting the Old English sheepdog. The Vikings spoke Old Norse, tackled Old English as adults, and never learned it completely. For example, it is unlikely a speaker of Old English would know modern English, but may have a few clues as to the use of words. Nonetheless, to suggest that Old English as a written language was ever quite dead and buried would be misleading. The Old English terms burg, burh, and byrig were used originally for fortified places, including villages and royal halls. Old English and Old Norse were related and to some extent mutually intelligible. Just read the first page or two and noted that it's much easier to read Old English once you know a bit of Dutch. The dialects of Northumberland have their foundations firmly rooted in Old English Anglo-Saxon, with huge influences from Scandanavia. The common tongue was by then very different from Old English or Anglo-Saxon. My Old English sheepdog is always rubbing against the couch and rolling around on the carpet. In the following, italics are used for words in Swedish, while bold text indicates Old English, or Anglo-Saxon. The structure of Old English was more like Latin in that words had various inflectional endings to indicate their grammatical function. He fled back to Dublin in ships with nailed sides, as noted in the Old English poem. Old English looks much like German and looks strange to us modern English speakers. The vast majority of the words used in Yorkshire dialect today are derived from Old Norse and Old English. From the late 8th century on, the Vikings forced entry, occupied the land, and introduced Old Norse words into Old English. Show More Sentences The Old English poem contains only about eighty instances of anacrusis, for example. The language spoken by the invaders is known as Old Norse, and was similar to Old English in many ways, being also a Germanic language. This appendix provides evidence of the application of anaptyxis in Old English. The trail diverges further as we track back past Old English and Classical Latin. Lambluv's Desert Dancer, is the top winning Old English sheepdog in the history of the breed with 64 blue ribbons. This version is the one most familiar to students of Old English literature, since it appeared in most Old English grammars and readers. The committee in charge of publicity for the dance put up a poster written in Old English calligraphy. Both hussy and housewife have their origin in Old English huswif, but hussy has undergone semantic derogation. Old English has a slightly different alphabet to modern English, including three letters which we don't have. She did indeed go to Harvard, where she majored in English and delighted in reading Chaucer in Old English. A similar phenomenon occurred in Old English, in which very many abstract words were formed by compounds of native Germanic words, instead of by borrowings from Latin. Old English sounds riddled with anastrophe to speakers of Modern English. But before breakfast we usually go for a walk with the dog, our second Old English sheepdog, looking out for deer and wild boar, wild orchids and mushrooms. He was judged against a flat-coated retriever, a giant schnauzer, an Old English sheepdog, a wire fox terrier, a saluki hound and Pekingese toy dog. The declaration, in Latin, Old English, Old Norse and modern English, is read to the West Riding, North Riding, City of York and East Riding in turn. J does not normally feature in words of Old English origin, the digraph dg representing the sound medially and finally, but some j words may be of Germanic origin. He's not only brilliant in law, he's an expert in historical research and has a huge library of medieval texts, even some in Old English and Occitan. Old English Sheepdogs are hard to take care of, especially because they need a lot of exercise and major grooming to keep knots out of their hair. Diligently, he traces each letter from the ancient Semitic and Phoenician alphabets through Old English and Norman French, exploring shapes and pronunciation. A few passages of Irish heroic poetry that survive from the prehistoric period employ an alliterative line very much like the one used by Old English poets. Show More Sentences The name Childe is probably derived from the Old English word cild which was used as a title of honour. This part of the name derives from the Old English for a farmstead in moorland, referring to the town's situation on the edge of Dartmoor. The four main dialectal forms of Old English were Mercian, Northumbrian, Kentish, and West Saxon. In the area of Old English lexicology and word-formation, a significant part of the previous work has been carried out by Kastovsky. In 1890, the masthead was firmly established in a Blackletter, or Old English style typeface, as they are sometimes known. That linguistic period begins with Old English, includes Middle English around 800 years ago, and ends with English as it is spoken today. Spelk is non-standard English and comes from the Old English spelc, meaning split wood. The origin of the word 'truth,' Old English trewth, means 'loyalty,' and truth involves loyalty as well as assent. Old English contained a certain number of loanwords from Latin, which was the scholarly and diplomatic lingua franca of Western Europe. Dahl, Ivar 1938 Substantival inflexion in Early Old English, vocalic stems. Norse borrowings are relatively rare in Old English literature, being mostly terms relating to government and administration. The change to Old English from Old Norse was substantive, pervasive, and of a democratic character. Unlike Modern English, Old English is a language rich in morphological diversity. In Old English, however, nouns and their modifying words take appropriate endings depending on their case. Old English nouns had grammatical gender, a feature absent in modern English, which uses only natural gender. Like today, Old English had fewer strong verbs, and many of these have over time decayed into weak forms. Considered one of the most beautiful of all Old English poems is Dream of the Rood, contained in the Vercelli Book. Modern editions of Old English manuscripts generally introduce some additional conventions. Other poetic forms exist in Old English including short verses, gnomes, and mnemonic poems for remembering long lists of names. In 1643, Abraham Whelock produced at Cambridge an edition with the Old English text and the Latin text in parallel columns, the first in England. Show More Sentences One, known as the Bilingual Canterbury Epitome, is in Old English with a translation of each annal into Latin. Another, the Peterborough Chronicle, is in Old English except for the last entry, which is in early Middle English. Augustine's around 720730, and the interlinear Old English gloss was added in the mid-ninth century. Also, it has long been supposed that the influence of Celtic languages on Old English was slight. The general consensus has been that Old English has little evidence of linguistic contact. The Old English name for the fine due for neglecting military service was fierdwite or fyrdwitee. This area corresponds roughly to the sprachraum of the Old English Northumbrian dialect. The toponym comes from the Old English Cula's hamm, referring to the village's position in a bend of the Thames. In Old English there is a distinction between two different kinds of verbs. Soon afterwards, it became impossible for people to read Old English, and the texts became useless. Old English is a West Germanic language closely related to Old Frisian and Old Saxon. Near the end of the Old English period the English language underwent a third foreign influence, namely the Scandinavian influence of Old Norse. There are about 30,000 surviving lines of Old English poetry and about ten times that much prose, and the majority of both is religious. Middle English developed out of Late Old English, seeing many dramatic changes in its grammar, pronunciation and orthography. During the Middle English period many Old English grammatical features were simplified or disappeared. The latter part of the 11th century was a period of transition from Late Old English to Early Middle English. Rynell, Alarik 1952 Parataxis and hypotaxis as a criterion of syntax and style, especially in Old English poetry. Under Norman influence, the continental Carolingian script replaced the insular that had been used for Old English. This distinction is similar to the division in English between words of Latin, French and Old English origins. A glance at the generic denominations will show that culver, which appears as the hyperonym in Old English, is now considered rare or archaic. Show More Sentences Similarly, the Old English poem Seafarer speaks of the high stone walls that were the work of giants. Reconstructing the early concept of an elf depends almost entirely on texts in Old English or relating to Norse mythology. Although this word took a variety of forms in different Old English dialects, these converged on the form elf during the Middle English period. In Old English sources, he appears in Deor, Waldere and in Beowulf and the legend is depicted on the Franks Casket. Old English borrowings were relatively sparse and drew mainly from ecclesiastical usage after the Christianization of England. The poem Beowulf, which often begins the traditional canon of English literature, is the most famous work of Old English literature. In the 10th century, the Caroline minuscule was adopted for latin, however the Insular minuscule continued to be used for Old English texts. In addition, some Old English text survives on stone structures and other ornate objects. Remely has recently proposed that the Old English Exodus may have been the work of Aldhelm, or someone closely associated with him. Old English poetry, like other Old Germanic alliterative verse, is also commonly marked by the caesura or pause. The amount of surviving Old English prose is much greater than the amount of poetry. Alfred proposed that students be educated in Old English, and those who excelled should go on to learn Latin. In the 17th century there began a tradition of Old English literature dictionaries and references. Old English literature has had some influence on modern literature, and notable poets have translated and incorporated Old English poetry. It may be the oldest surviving long poem in Old English and is commonly cited as one of the most important works of Old English literature. Its name comes from the Old English for word dierne or derne which means hidden stream. The Old English translation of the Historia ecclesiastica does contain several minor details not found in Bede's Latin original account. Beowulf may now be called the English epic, but the work was unknown to Restoration authors, and Old English was incomprehensible to them. The essay remains highly influential in the study of Old English literature to this day. It is alliterative, extending to almost 1,000 lines imitating the Old English Beowulf metre in Modern English. Show More Sentences Beowulf, is the most famous work in Old English and has achieved national epic status in England, despite being set in Scandinavia. One possible source for the name is the Old English cricc or cryce meaning a crutch or staff. The Weald once was covered with forest, and its name, Old English in origin, signifies woodland. Their Old English name gave the modern Scots form Pechts and the Welsh word Fichti. However, there is surviving literature from what would become Scotland in Brythonic, Gaelic, Latin and Old English. Elites spoke Gaelic although some commoners in the Lothians retained Old English. Old English and Old High German are no exceptions, but their word order has usually been studied with the use of prose texts. Scots was derived substantially from Old English, with Gaelic and French influences. It has been said that Old English is Dutch, and to no other nation is the study of the Netherlandish more interesting than to the English. In addition, numerous common, everyday Old Norse words were adopted into the Old English language during the Viking age. As used in this article, the Scots language word burgh is derived from the Old English Burh. The northern forms of Middle English descended from Northumbrian Old English. The term Welsh is derived from an Old English word meaning 'foreigner', referring to the old inhabitants of southern Britain. Commemorative goodies include toy Old English sheepdogs, mugs, figurines and dog blankets and bowls. We met Davies last August with an expert from the Dogs' Trust, who inspected the Old English sheepdog puppy we were offered. In England, Cotton's studies of the manuscripts in his collection marks the beginnings of work on Old English language. In the Alfredian translation of Orosius's and Wulfstan's travel accounts, the Old English form Sconeg appears. A contemporary reference to Kvenland is provided in an Old English account written in the 9th century. Both the Parker Chronicle and Peterborough Chronicle annals of AD 793 record the Old English name, Lindisfarena. The name Kent is believed to be of British Celtic origin and was known in Old English as Cent, Cent lond, Centrice. Show More Sentences While registration of Chihuahuas saw a phenomenal 215 per cent increase between 2009-2013, the Old English Sheepdog has declined by 27 per cent. The Old English form Brycgstow is commonly used to derive the meaning place at the bridge. The name haw, originally an Old English term for hedge, applies to the fruit. The name ivy derives from Old English ifig, cognate with German Efeu, of unknown original meaning. While registration of chihuahuas saw a 215 per cent increase from 2009-2013, the Old English Sheepdog has declined by 27 per cent. The word borough derives from the Old English word burh, meaning a fortified settlement. It seems to have taken effect earliest and most completely Old English and Old Norse. Frisia appears in the Old English heroic poem Beowulf, which tells a story of events of the early 6th century. Grammatically, however, Old High German remained very similar to Old English, Old Dutch, and Old Saxon. The syntax of Gothic is similar to that of other old Germanic languages such as Old English and Old Norse. Before the consolidation of Sweden, the Geats were politically independent of the Swedes or Svear, whose name was Sweonas in Old English. Icelandic has inflectional grammar comparable to Latin, Ancient Greek, more closely to Old English and practically identical to Old Norse. For sound changes before and after the Old English period, see Phonological history of English. Old East Norse and Old English were still somewhat mutually comprehensible. Geld or Jeld was the Old English and Old Frisian word for money, and still is in Dutch, Frisian, German and Afrikaans. This pairing may also be further attested in an Old English ploughing prayer and in the Greek pairings of Ouranos and Gaia and Zeus and Demeter. He is associated with charms and other forms of magic, particularly in Old English and Old Norse texts. The Old English rune poem is a rune poem that recounts the Old English runic alphabet, the futhorc. Many flat adverbs, as in 'run fast', 'buy cheap', etc. are from Old English. This became the name for sheep meat in English, while the Old English word sceap was kept for the live animal. Show More Sentences From its Sanskrit roots, today's pepper derives from the Old English pipor. The standard spellings were those of Middle English pronunciation, and spelling conventions continued from Old English. Old English was a moderately inflected language, using an extensive case system similar to that of modern Icelandic or German. Middle and Modern English lost progressively more of the Old English inflectional system. Unlike modern English, but like Old English, Old Saxon is an inflected language, rich in morphological diversity. The Old Saxon verb inflection system reflects an intermediate stage between Old English and Old Dutch, and further Old High German. Thus, it affected High German, Low German, Dutch, Frisian and Old English alike. This system continued largely intact in the first attested Germanic languages, notably Gothic, Old English, Old High German and Old Norse. The language of official documents also changed, from Old English to Latin. Many hundreds of weak verbs in contemporary English go back to Old English strong verbs. The phonological system of the Old English language underwent many changes during the period of its existence. Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge suggest this also for Bald's Leechbook and the anonymous Old English Martyrology. A number of phonological processes affected Old English in the period before the earliest documentation. Second fronting did not affect the standard West Saxon dialect of Old English. But the change was dramatic if measured by the elimination of the English nobility or the loss of Old English as a literary language. As mentioned above, Modern English derives mostly from the Anglian dialect rather than the standard West Saxon dialect of Old English. The argument in favour of calling Middle English a creole comes from the extreme reduction in inflected forms from Old English to Middle English. In fact, by the end of the period in which Middle English was spoken, as much as eighty percent of Old English vocabulary was no longer in use. Later medieval literature included works in Latin, Gaelic, Old English and French. Northumbrian was a dialect of Old English spoken in the Anglian Kingdom of Northumbria. Show More Sentences Modern English descends from Middle English, which in turn descends from Old English. A few short inscriptions from the early period of Old English were written using a runic script. The importance of the two translations is that it shows the formatting practices of Latin and Old English during those five centuries. In the period from the 8th to the 12th century, Old English gradually transformed through language contact into Middle English. A number of changes are traditionally made in published modern editions of the original Old English manuscripts. They were likely used from the 5th century onward, recording Old English and Old Frisian. In older printed editions of Old English works, an acute accent mark was used to maintain cohesion between Old English and Old Norse printing. The great majority of literary works in Old English that survive to today are written in the Roman alphabet. The language at this time would have been the Northumbrian dialect of Old English. In particular, it shares the palatalisation of velar consonants also found in Old English. The Old English poetry which has received the most attention deals with the Germanic heroic past. The grammar of Old English is quite different from that of Modern English, predominantly by being much more inflected. It was derived largely from Old English, with the addition of elements from Gaelic and French. Old English is one of the West Germanic languages, and its closest relatives are Old Frisian and Old Saxon. Old English heroic poetry was handed down orally from generation to generation. Several Old English poems are adaptations of late classical philosophical texts. In Old English, however, it was much more extensive, like the word order in modern German. Perhaps around 85 per cent of Old English words are no longer in use, but those that survived are basic elements of Modern English vocabulary. The phonology of Old English is necessarily somewhat speculative, since it is preserved purely as a written language. Andreas is 1,722 lines long and is the closest of the surviving Old English poems to Beowulf in style and tone. Show More Sentences None of the individuals can be securely dated, though the name Biscop, Old English for 'bishop', suggests a time after conversion. The important Benedictine monasteries both wrote chronicles and guarded other works in Old English. In some languages, such as Old English, these behave like short and long vowels, occupying one and two morae, respectively. Under Norman influence, the continental Carolingian minuscule replaced the insular script that had been used for Old English. This is particularly the case with ancient languages such as Latin and Old English. The migration to Britain caused a further split into early Old English and early Old Frisian. For more detail about the changes in the first millennium AD, see the section on the development of Old English vowels. It focuses on the Old English and Middle English changes leading to the modern forms. As a philologist, he specialized in the Germanic languages, particularly Old English and Old Norse. Some scholars therefore propose a description of Old English with V2 constraint as the norm. Old English should not be regarded as a single monolithic entity, just as Modern English is also not monolithic. As in Old English, V2 inversion did not apply to clauses with pronoun subjects. As in most Germanic languages, including Old English, both of these varieties inflect according to gender, case and number. These Old English Latin alphabets supplanted the earlier runes, whose use was fully banned under King Canute in the early 11th century. The Celtic languages also tended to use C instead of K, and this influence carried over into Old English. By the 7th or 8th century, the earliest writers of Old English and Old High German. Even then, Old English continued to exhibit much local and regional variation, remnants of which remain in Modern English dialects. The words woof and weft derive ultimately from the Old English word wefan, to weave. The name Pool How was derived from the Old English word pollr plus the Old Norse haugr meaning hill or mound. Beowulf is the most famous work in Old English, and has achieved national epic status in England, despite being set in Scandinavia. Show More Sentences Two Old English poems from the late 10th century are The Wanderer and The Seafarer. The dialect has roots in older languages such as Old English and Old Norse. The name Wharfe derives from the Old English weorf or the Old Norse hverfr meaning winding river. Another explanation is a corruption of the Old English hay and ley a clearing or meadow. Also from the Old English period, the word could denote the spirit of God, viz. The fricative allophones are sometimes indicated in reconstructed forms to make it easier to understand the development of Old English consonants. In Beowulf, the forms Scedenige and Scedeland are used, while the Alfredian translation of Orosius and Wulfstan's travel accounts used the Old English Sconeg. In Old English, the word liverwort literally means liver plant. After the Norman conquest, the Old English language was displaced and confined to the lower social classes as Norman French and Latin were used by the aristocracy. The Old English word for Jesus was healend, one who heals, or the Savior. Yorkshire people have their own Yorkshire dialects and accents and are, or rather were, known as Broad Yorkshire or Tykes, with its roots in Old English and Old Norse. The oldest Old English inscriptions were written using a runic system, but from about the 9th century this was replaced by a version of the Latin alphabet. While indicating that the establishment of dates is an arbitrary process, Albert Baugh dates Old English from 450 to 1150, a period of full inflections, a synthetic language. The Old English Latin alphabet was introduced around the 9th century. Old English syntax was similar in many ways to that of modern English. In contrast with Modern English orthography, that of Old English was reasonably regular, with a mostly predictable correspondence between letters and phonemes. The following table lists the Old English letters and digraphs together with the phonemes they represent, using the same notation as in the Phonology section above. Still, poetry is considered the heart of Old English literature. A number of websites devoted to Modern Paganism and historical reenactment offer reference material and forums promoting the active use of Old English. Smith undertook his edition under the influence of Thomas Gale, encouraged by Ralph Thoresby, and with assistance of Humfrey Wanley on Old English. Show More Sentences It also had the Old English version of the Historia ecclesiastica. This last entry is in Middle English, rather than Old English. Titled Chronicon Saxonicum, it printed Latin and Old English versions of the text in parallel columns and became the standard edition until the 19th century. Continuing into the Middle Ages, Latin incorporated many more words from surrounding languages, including Old English and other Germanic languages. Alternatively, the word eofor already existed as an Old English word for wild swine, which is a cognate of the current Low Saxon word eaver and Dutch ever. However, this did not result in many Brythonic words entering Old English. Orderic Vitalis records that William tried to learn to read Old English late in life, but he was unable to devote sufficient time to the effort and quickly gave up. In a similar manner to the English Parliament, the Old English members of the Irish Parliament argued that while opposed to Strafford they remained loyal to Charles. Tolkien noticed that a subtle distinction preserved in these texts indicated that Old English had continued to be spoken far longer than anyone had supposed. All of these dialects have direct descendants in modern England, and American regional dialects also have their roots in the dialects of Old English. Ingvaeonic, also known as North Sea Germanic, is a postulated grouping of the West Germanic languages that comprises Old Frisian, Old English and Old Saxon. The Celtic element din was dropped and replaced by the Old English burh. The grammatical relations that were expressed in Old English by the dative and instrumental cases are replaced in Early Middle English with prepositional constructions. During these ceremonies, Heathens often recite poetry to honor the deities, which typically draw upon or imitate the Early Medieval poems written in Old Norse or Old English. The modern English noun dwarf descends from the Old English dweorg. In the Old English Herbal, it translates Latin verrucas, warts. Alfred is said to be the author of some of the metrical prefaces to the Old English translations of Gregory's Pastoral Care and Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy. One of the earliest Old English texts in prose is the Martyrology, information about saints and martyrs according to their anniversaries and feasts in the church calendar. He also wrote a grammar and glossary in Old English called Latin, later used by students interested in learning Old French because it had been glossed in Old French. Old English literature did not disappear in 1066 with the Norman Conquest. Show More Sentences The poem mixes the West Saxon and Anglian dialects of Old English, though it predominantly uses West Saxon, as do other Old English poems copied at the time. An Old English poem such as Beowulf is very different from modern poetry. It is one of the earliest attested examples of written Old English and one of the earliest recorded examples of sustained poetry in a Germanic language. This took nearly a century, with various English administrations in the process either negotiating or fighting with the independent Irish and Old English lords. The establishment of royal burghs throughout the same area, particularly under David I, attracted large numbers of foreigners speaking Old English. The word otter derives from the Old English word otor or oter. However the cognate term landscaef or landskipe for a cleared patch of land had existed in Old English, though it is not recorded from Middle English. The language of the migrants, Old English, came over the next few centuries to predominate throughout what is now England, at the expense of British Celtic and British Latin. The Exeter Book dates back to the 10th century and is one of four manuscripts that between them contain virtually all the surviving poetry in Old English. The first known mention of Finns is in the Old English poem Widsith which was compiled in the 10th century, though its contents is probably older. After Rheged was incorporated into Northumbria, the old Cumbric language was gradually replaced by Old English, Cumbric surviving only in remote upland communities. In Grimm's first editions, his Icelandic paradigms are based entirely on Rask's grammar, and in his second edition, he relied almost entirely on Rask for Old English. Most of these verbs are descended from Old English class 1 verbs. Unmetathesized forms of all of these words also occur in Old English. The other two dialects of Old English were Kentish and West Saxon. West Saxon was one of four distinct dialects of Old English. It is often referred to as Alfredian Old English, or Alfredian. Despite the differences in the Hymn found in the Old English manuscripts, each copy of the hymn is metrically, semantically, and syntactically correct. Hence, a close relationship exists between Old Frisian and Old English. Generally, Old Frisian phonologically resembles Old English. Show More Sentences In unstressed syllables, o merges into a, and i into e as in Old English. Verbs in Old English are divided into strong and weak verbs. Old English is an inflected language, and as such its nouns, pronouns, adjectives and determiners must be declined in order to serve a grammatical function. Furthermore, Old English nouns are divided as either strong or weak. The following is a list of prepositions in the Old English language. While many purport that Old English had free word order, this is not quite true, as there were conventions for the positioning of subject, object and verb in clause. Old English had an instrumental case, but not a locative or prepositional. Thus Old English is classified, to some extent, as an SOV language. There is little, if any, doubt that the division of Sussex into six rapes had been carried out before the Conquest, though the term is not mentioned in any Old English record. And as unfaegene eorl alliterates, and as both word orders are well-formed verse types in Old English, either word order would have theoretically been available to the poet. The typicality of these five rhetoric characteristics of Old English rhetoric is mirrored widely across both genre, time, and topic, as the following examples will indicate. Yoder relates the issue of unriddling to his explanation of Emerson's concept of the Orphic poet, tracing the role of the poet as fiddle-solver back to Old English culture. Related verbs and nouns exist in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, Middle Dutch, Dutch, Old High German, Middle High German, and German. A kilderkin is an old English liquid measure, dating from about the 13 th century, equal to 16 gallons, or half a barrel. And they dismantled an old English prejudice that continentals could not shoot. The villages' name derives from the old English word Slohtre meaning a muddy place. Jock-bashing is just another grand old English tradition, a bit like morris dancing or cavorting round a maypole. A faldstool is prescribed by the old English Ritual in the consecration of a bishop. Today, after a pep talk from the folks, some beers from my friends and a good old English Breakfast cuppa I'm relishing the challenge. A kilderkin is an old English liquid measure, dating from about the 13th century, equal to 16 gallons, or half a barrel. Show More Sentences This is not your old English teacher's haiku, or some tired set of elegies from a bygone era. She began to climb up the soft slope that lead up to the main house, the old English house in which she was employed as the stable girl. My hypoxic brain fuzzed the question around until suddenly the trail spit out onto an open field, and the finish was only a few hundred good old English yards away. There was a fondness for what was seen as a fusty old English brand. Not vases and statuettes of china, but tea cups and saucers, tea-pots, milk-jugs, sugar and slop basins, are the characteristic pieces of old English porcelain. This might also help explain how his fascination with British history is so muddlingly mixed with a seeming ignorance of old English social systems. Lest you think GWS is a snooty Philistine, I'll share that I'm a great lover of old English villages and towns. The largest wooden structure in the islands, it's modeled after old English hunting lodges, with a full croquet course and pros to teach you the game. She sounds grateful for his suggestion that she use milk and apple juice as eye drops for their old English bulldog, Josephine. And the old English common law treated the servant as a member of the family and that's why the master could administer corporal punishment for example. Place names in Northumberland have their roots mostly in old English, Norse, French, Scandinavian and middle English. Historically, it was thought the original old English Bulldog was something else mixture with the Weimaraner. Another was like an old English inn with wood-lined walls and horse brasses. Orwell liked to provoke arguments by challenging the status quo, but he was also a traditionalist with a love of old English values. Middle-class breeds include golden retrievers, old English sheep dogs and rough collies. He was a black and white Tibetan lion dog, like a shrunken version of an old English sheep dog. While another superb old English word for someone fat and slovenly is fustilugs. White Ladies did not mean snowdrops, by their pretty old English name, ghosts in white cere-clothes, or belles in white tarlatan. Reading David Dollar's article made me feel as if I were in the company of an alert old English sheepdog. The Dulux dog, first played by an animal called Shepton Dash, was so well known it became a common nickname for old English sheepdogs. Find more words! 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