Old English

2. Germanic tribe that settled in England alongside the Angles
5. The press introduced by Caxton standardised English spelling
9. Samuel who compiled the famous English Dictionary in 1755
11. The total vocabulary of a language or person
14. A regional variety of a language
15. Term for excessive Latin/Greek borrowings criticised in Early Modern English
17. Ancient symbols used for writing in Old English before the Latin alphabet
18. The Great Shift of this sound type transformed English pronunciation 1400–1700

1. The 1066 Conquest that flooded English with French vocabulary
3. A word-ending morpheme central to Old English grammar
4. William who introduced the printing press to England in 1476
6. Lowth wrote a famous 1762 book of this that codified Late Modern English
7. Late Modern English became more this as inflections disappeared
8. The King James version of 1611 shaped Early Modern English enormously
10. The rules governing word order in sentences
11. Language of the Church and medieval scholarship in England
12. Middle English poet who wrote The Canterbury Tales
13. The greatest surviving Old English epic poem
14. Regional speech variety that differed greatly across Middle English areas
16. The Viking language that influenced Old English vocabulary