What Does It Mean to Really Know a Word?

When the vikings invaded into north england, their language was similar to the anglo saxons were talking here the sixth century. Their language was similar because they're both germanic, but the endings were different. And so what it seems happened was that the two language communities understood the root and didn't understand the endings of the words. They stopped using them. There's a linguistic idea as well that english tends to have the stress at the beginning of a word. The last syllable is often weak or unstressed. So those two hing playing together a meant that we just stopped using genders. That's what rockan rold english is all about. Storyhem and