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Old English

450 - 1100

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Middle English

1150 - 1500

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Early Modern English

1500 - 1750

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Late Modern English

Current

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What occurred once Old Norse came into contact with English?

Many lexical borrowings into English occurred in areas like violence and war (e.g. gun, slaughter, war, beserk), animals (e.g. bull, bug, reindeer), and pronouns (they, them, their).

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Middle English with Old Norse borrowings?

e.g. knife, skull, die, hit, anger, awkward, glitter

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Introduction of Norman French words into English #1

Many words that we use today relating to law and power originated from this period | ‘Court’, ‘Law’, ‘Jury’, ‘Government’, ‘Judge’, ‘Castle’, ‘Crown’

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Introduction of Norman French words into English #2

e.g. enter, chamber, purchase, blouse, beef, pork, mutton