the History of the English Language
Across
- 5. a place that still has a scandinavian name
- 6. loanwords still in use were____ by roman merchants
- 7. who lead the christian missionaries
- 9. what fraction of anglo-saxon vocabulary survives today
- 10. language is still changing now with new words from this
- 12. a time of grat cultural and intellectual development
- 13. Samuel Johnson published his in 1755
- 14. the norman bring what language
- 18. who invades in 1066
- 19. the how mnay hundred years war
- 20. many of the latin words refer to religion
- 21. a place name with celtic origins
Down
- 1. who had the earliest effect on the english language
- 2. some scholar tried to control the english lnguage with these
- 3. Angles SAxons and Juts are known as what tribes
- 4. in 789AD who invades britain
- 6. christian missionaries arrive from where in 597AD
- 8. what arise in oxford anf cambridge
- 11. a place where books are kept was a new latin word inherited
- 15. words inherited from the normans all refer to power like
- 16. who invades and rules england for over 200 years
- 17. most of the words inherited were