Episode 53: The End of Endings
The History of English Podcast
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Early Middle English Texts - Ormulum and Peterborough
French tended to use the same developing word order, subject, verb, object. But french also had its own inflectional endings that were completely different from english endings. The loss of inflections and the adoption of fixed word order spread south. A couple of centuries after alfred, and about a century after the norman conquest, we have another text called ormulum.
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