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Modern English

NOUN
  1. English since about 1450

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  • The time-travel scenes are unconvincing: Will runs into a Viking who speaks by grunting noncommittally and runs into some seventeenth-century Brits who speak in unaccented modern English. Archive 2007-10-01
  • A community electing its own governor and enacting whatever laws it pleases is not a colony in the modern English meaning of the word. True History of the American Revolution « Isegoria
  • Funny to hit this posting a few minutes after reading a post at Balloon Juice about the Conservapedia project to retranslate the Bible (from the original King James to modern English), in the process cleaning up the liberal-biased language and the parts of the Gospels that are inauthentic (liberal) interpolations, and laying proper emphasis on the parables that show the values of the free market. The Bible Around The Blogosphere
  • I'm writing a grammar of modern English.
  • I've never heard approvement in this sense in modern English. On tolerating
  • One such word was bancus, for the ancient “workbench” whose name has a common ancestor—in the Germanic line—with the Modern English word bench. The English Is Coming!
  • There doesn't seem to be any trace of pronominal affixes attached to verbs like we might find in many other languages that surrounded it like the inflection hell endured in Latin, Phoenician and Greek and it opted for a more analytic approach by using independent pronouns, much like in Modern English. Enclitics and noun phrases in Etruscan
  • Old English sounds riddled with anastrophe to speakers of Modern English.
  • What a pretty word lithe is - so pretty that in modern English it is probably most used of young women. Litha (June): the early English calendar
  • I have noticed a lot of what seems to me to be over-hyphenization in modern English. Stupid grammar rules I: Email vs. e-mail « Motivated Grammar
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