The History of the English Language

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Across
  1. 4. Name of the Norman leader who became England's king in 1066: "William the ___" (9)
  2. 7. The language of the government following the Norman Conquest (5)
  3. 8. The ancestor of most European languages: "Proto-________" (4-8)
  4. 12. The pestilence which killed approximately one third of the English population from 1349-1350 (5-5)
  5. 13. The name of the man who developed the printing press (6)
  6. 14. A now-dead language which strongly influenced Middle and Modern English (5)
  7. 15. One of four dialects of Old English (7)
  8. 16. “The _____ English Dictionary” (6)
Down
  1. 1. The author of “The Dictionary of the English Language”: Samuel _____ (7)
  2. 2. One of the only surviving Old English poems (7)
  3. 3. One of four Old English dialects (7)
  4. 4. "______ Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer (10)
  5. 5. The English playwright who added many new words to Early Modern English (11)
  6. 6. The king who commissioned the translation of the Bible into English in 1604 (5)
  7. 9. The group of Germanic people who established Old English in England (5-6)
  8. 10. The group of Scandinavian warriors who brought Old Norse to England (7)
  9. 11. Name of the accent used by BBC broadcasters during the 1920s: “_____ Pronunciation” (8)