Four Historical Periods of English

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Across
  1. 3. king who defended against viking invasion and unified english
  2. 8. 110-1500 C.E
  3. 13. The guy who introduced the first printing press
  4. 15. World's largest language family
  5. 16. A mechanical machine that prints characters on paper
  6. 17. Language widely spoken by ordinary people
  7. 18. famous playwright during the period of early modern english
  8. 20. 500-1100 C.E
Down
  1. 1. The author of the book of Margery Kempe
  2. 2. 1800-present
  3. 4. Winner of the battle of hastings
  4. 5. Study of the origin of words and how they have evolved
  5. 6. What caused a need for new words describing modern technological processes
  6. 7. Author of first american dictionary
  7. 9. Shift of phonetic sounds upward in mouth
  8. 10. Variation in language determined by geography
  9. 11. Lexemes that have similar meaning across different languages due to a related history
  10. 12. the book which established the standard for written english
  11. 14. The language used by the upper class during the Middle English era
  12. 19. Includes subgroups of Irish, welsh, scottish gaelic etc. languages