History of English

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Across
  1. 2. The author associated with Early Modern English
  2. 4. Language family English belongs to
  3. 6. What is Beowulf
  4. 9. Set of rules in a language
  5. 10. What happened to grammatical gender in Middle English
  6. 13. The invasion of 1066 that influenced English vocabulary
  7. 15. The oldest form of English
  8. 16. A famous writer of Middle English
  9. 18. System of sounds in a language
Down
  1. 1. Process describes the reduction of grammar forms
  2. 3. Period of English used by Chaucer
  3. 5. Saxons and Jutes
  4. 7. Period of English used by Chaucer
  5. 8. The language from which many scientific and legal words came
  6. 11. Rules of sentence structure
  7. 12. Writing system used in early Germanic culture
  8. 14. A famous Old English epic poem
  9. 16. Old English word for "king"
  10. 17. Study of word origins