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There's something to be said for the vigor injecting new vocabulary and throwing the language into the great vowel shift had on the language, but at the same time, woe onto us the untidy spelling that came about and the loss of declension.

I wonder some times if Winstanley had a point --along modern day French, when he decried the assault of a foreign language on the indigenous culture. Never the less, I think we are better off for it.



And a window into some of his feelings towards the Normans --they were not sugar coated but were quite eloquent[1]

[1]https://books.google.com/books?id=_cnrjlrzUE4C&pg=PA148#v=on...




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