• Kentish was a southern dialect of Old English spoken in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Kent. It was one of four dialect-groups of Old English, the other three...
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  • The Old Kentish Glosses are a series of glosses written in the Kentish dialect of Old English on parts of the Latin text of the biblical Book of Proverbs...
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  • grammar of Old English differs considerably from Modern English, predominantly being much more inflected. As a Germanic language, Old English has a morphological...
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    The Kingdom of the Kentish (Old English: Cantwara rīce; Latin: Regnum Cantuariorum), today referred to as the Kingdom of Kent, was an early medieval kingdom...
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    Kentish Town is an area of northwest London, England in the London Borough of Camden, immediately north of Camden Town. Less than four miles north of...
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  • Britain by the Roman conquest. Old English had four main dialects, associated with particular Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: Kentish, Mercian, Northumbrian, and West...
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  • London, England Kentish as a surname: John Kentish (minister), 1768–1853 John Kentish (tenor), 1910–2006, English opera singer Kentish may also be an adjective...
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  • loaned from Old Norse (skirt and shirt). Old English had four major dialect groups: Kentish, West Saxon, Mercian, and Northumbrian. Kentish and West Saxon...
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  • Saxon being one of the four distinct regional dialects of Old English. The three others were Kentish, Mercian and Northumbrian (the latter two were similar...
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    debated. Old English evolved into Middle English, which in turn evolved into Modern English. Particular dialects of Old and Middle English also developed...
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    Anglo-Frisian varieties, like Old English and Old Frisian, and the third Ingvaeonic group at the time, the ancestor of Low German Old Saxon, were spoken by intercommunicating...
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    and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet. Old English was first written down using the Latin alphabet during the 7th century...
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  • of Old English spoken in the Anglian Kingdom of Northumbria. Together with Mercian, Kentish and West Saxon, it forms one of the sub-categories of Old English...
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  • The Kentish Psalm, also known as Kentish Psalm 50, is an Old English translation of and commentary on Psalm 51 (numbered 50 in the Septuagint). The poem...
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    Shaw (1888). The Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms (PDF). Lewes: Farncombe & Co. p. vii. Davis, Graeme, Dictionary of Surrey English (2007), p.30 Gower...
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  • stressed vowel changes. Old English had four major dialect groups: West Saxon, Mercian, Northumbrian, and Kentish. West Saxon and Kentish occurred in the south...
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  • Old English literature refers to poetry (alliterative verse) and prose written in Old English in early medieval England, from the 7th century to the decades...
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  • was one of the two Anglian dialects. The other two dialects of Old English were Kentish and West Saxon. Each of those dialects was associated with an independent...
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    until the late 15th century. The English language underwent distinct variations and developments following the Old English period. Scholarly opinion varies...
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  • (from Greek) vs. either (native). Dialect mixture between Old English dialects (like Kentish) that voiced initial fricatives and the more standard dialects...
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  • Mercian, Northumbrian, Kentish and West Saxon; the last of these formed the basis for the literary standard of the later Old English period, although the...
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  • English, sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States. English...
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  • Modern English (ME), sometimes called New English (NE) as opposed to Middle and Old English, is the form of the English language that has been spoken since...
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    The O2 Forum Kentish Town is a concert venue in Kentish Town, London, England, owned by MAMA & Company and originally built in 1934. The venue was built...
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  • Many words that existed in Old English did not survive into Modern English. There are also many words in Modern English that bear little or no resemblance...
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  • Æthelberht of Kent (category Kentish saints)
    warlike third state. Sources for this period in Kentish history include the Ecclesiastical History of the English People, written in 731 by Bede, a Northumbrian...
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    History of Kent (redirect from Kentish Man)
    "Kentish Long-Tail", deriving from the long-held belief on the continental mainland of Medieval Europe that the English had tails. The 600000-year old...
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    The Old English Hexateuch, or Aelfric Paraphrase, is the collaborative project of the late Anglo-Saxon period that translated the six books of the Hexateuch...
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  • The Old English Martyrology is a collection of over 230 hagiographies, probably compiled in Mercia, or by someone who wrote in the Mercian dialect of...
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    migrate. Its common English name comes from the county of Kent, where it was once found, but it has not bred in Britain since 1979. Kentish plovers are ground-nesting...
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