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