The History of the English Language

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