
Episode 54: Pronoun Pros and Cons
The History of English Podcast
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The History of Third Person Pronouns
English has developed ways to make these pronouns very distinct and very clear. Old norse language had become mixed with the language of the anglo saxons. People in the north tended to be more bilingual, so they had access to all those Norse words. It took several centuries for those northern innovations to spread around the island. But one of reasons why linguists are so fascinated with the canterbury tales is because he mimicked their unique dialects. He writes about two students who visited a miller to have some wheat ground into flour. They were both from the north - ferin de l'Heureux and Canterbury De L'Harcourt. In reeve
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