The History of the English Language

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