
Episode 53: The End of Endings
The History of English Podcast
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What Happened to Old English and Old Norse?
Old english and old norse were very similar in terms of vocabulary and grammar. The two groups could communicate with each other by simply stripping away some of the grammatical differences. What resulted, in many ways, s was a simplified form of old english. That process brought about the fundamental change between old English grammar and modernEnglish grammar. And the consequences are found in almost every sentence we speak to day.
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