
Episode 32: The Oldest English
The History of English Podcast
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The Lord's Prayer in Modern English
The original version of the word Land was Lond in the West Saxon dialect. But the Anglian dialects to the North pronounced it as Lond and it was spelled L-O-N-D there. Another type of difference between these dialects was the vowel sound before an M or N sound. The first vowel sound changed in each case. For example, the word Father is slightly different in each cases. So in West Saxon it was Fatter. In Northumbrian it was Father. Very close to our Modern English Father. But in Mercian it was fatter.
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