A Short History of the English Language
Across
- 2. the old english plural of 'house'
- 4. a word added at the start of another
- 6. a poem of 14 lines
- 8. the system and structure of a language
- 10. referring to the English
- 11. regarded as a 'dead language', taught at PLC
- 12. economic activity
- 13. an English poet best known for The Canterbury Tales
- 16. the act of mass producing text
- 22. seafaring people originally from Scandinavia
- 23. the official language of French
- 25. relating to language
- 26. a resource that lists all the words of a language
- 27. a word that has the same meaning as another
Down
- 1. an unwelcome intrusion
- 3. a playwright regarded as the greatest writer of the English language
- 5. the original people of a land
- 7. one may like to do this in the sun
- 9. the relationship of human beings to what they regard as holy, sacred, spiritual or divine
- 14. relating to runes
- 15. groups of people living together
- 17. Norwegians or Scandinavians in ancient or medieval times
- 18. an Old English epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend
- 19. the highest level of government
- 20. specialised terminology difficult for others to understand
- 21. animal flesh eaten as food
- 22. the body of words used in a particular language
- 24. another word for Irish people