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THE BEGINNINGS OF MODERN ENGLISH - Coggle Diagram
THE BEGINNINGS OF MODERN ENGLISH
English had triumphed over French as the spoken language by the mid-1 century.
Great expanded vocabulary
Much growth came from the learned words borrowed from Latin and Greek.
Growth of English
English became the language of scholarship, replacing Latin.
Spelling
Early in the Renaissance, spelling was erratic.
Robert Mulcaster proposed as system of regularizing spelling, which was quickly accepted.
Willingness to experiment
Shakespeare leading the way, new forms of words were invented daily.
Pronunciation
From the period of Shakespeare, notice that many words are stressed on different syllables and from ones currently emphasized.
Changes in grammatical elements
Nouns
Older plurals like eyen and kine were replaced by eyes and cows.
Pronouns
Ye was rapidly being replaced by you, and thou, thee and thy were disappearing from popular speech.
Verbs
When the verbs were in third person, they added th at the end.
