History of the English Language - The Renaissance?

Check out the following chapter on this subject at the link below

-The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21).

Volume III. Renascence and Reformation.

XX. The Language from Chaucer to Shakespeare.

http://www.bartleby.com/213/2003.html

History of the English Language

Links to resources, discussion list, workshops, and more.

ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/hel.html

Wikipedia: History of the English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated from the Anglo-Frisian ... adopted foreign words, especially from Latin...

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History of the English Language

Renaissance Attitudes Toward Teaching English ... History of the English Language (36 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Course...

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maximum obligatory archives/books are in Latin. After that that's based upon which region you will learn. bear in suggestions that Medieval French, German, Italian, and English are VERY diverse from that spoken/written in the present day. So whether you're examining Renaissance England, you will nonetheless could desire to learn Medieval English.

Visit this site dedicated to providing information about Elizabethan Language.Fast and accurate details and facts about the history of Elizabethan Language.

www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-language.htm Also many letters weren't proounced the same such as ye olde inn is not spoken as written its spoken as the old inn. Elizabethans believed that you weren't very smarte if you culd onli spell a word one way. (LOL)