How To Use Middle English In A Sentence
- Eric is also a polymath ( "he mastered the steepest matters in half an afternoon") who studies Einstein's special theory in both German and English, reads poetry, contemplates the Middle English roots of the word "hangnail" and works out faithfully (a universal trait of the protagonists of cheap thrillers). All Day in a Rich Guy's Limo Makes for a Very Silly Novel
- Etymology: Middle English braundisshen, from Anglo-French brandiss-, stem of brandir, from brant, braund sword, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English brand The Volokh Conspiracy » More on gun registration, and guns at POTUS speeches:
- In this it contrasts with the accentual four-stress line of Old English and Middle English alliterative verse, in which the caesura is expected to fall in the middle of the line.
- The use of the term corned comes from the fact that the Middle English word corn could refer to grains of salt as well as cereal grains. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
- SAVE THE POUND (avoirdupois) If the word avoirdupois sounds a bit foreign too it is from French and Middle English (Anglo-French) avoir de pois, "goods of weight" or "goods sold by weight". Archive 2007-10-21
- The very word industry comes from the Middle English word industrie, or skill, and from the Latin industria, or diligence. We don’t sell records,we sell dreams: Janis Ian
- 'Sendon' or 'Sindon' from Latin 'sindon,' Greek sindon 'fine cloth, linen' was used in Middle English for a fine cloth, especially one used as a shroud. Languagehat.com: SYNDONIA.
- Mr. Dean, who as a young father regaled his daughters with passages from Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" in Middle English and fed the girls plump blueberries from the back yard, died of a brain aneurysm Dec. 2 at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington County. A Local Life: Alan L. Dean, 92, the 'Ideal Father'
- Middle English is the English language from about 1100 to 1500
- The word "tickle" comes from the Middle English tickelen, which it's believed came from ticken, to touch lightly. Archive 2009-04-01
