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What is the earliest form of English called?
What is the earliest form of English called?
Old English
What is the most famous work in Old English?
What is the most famous work in Old English?
Beowulf
What language became the standard language of courts, parliament, and polite society after the Norman conquest of England?
What language became the standard language of courts, parliament, and polite society after the Norman conquest of England?
French
What is the form of English that lasted until the 1470s known as?
What is the form of English that lasted until the 1470s known as?
In what century were the Anglo-Saxon dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon invaders?
In what century were the Anglo-Saxon dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon invaders?
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Earliest English
Earliest English
Old English
Famous Old English work?
Famous Old English work?
Beowulf
Post-Conquest Standard?
Post-Conquest Standard?
French
English form until 1470s?
English form until 1470s?
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Anglo-Saxon arrival century?
Anglo-Saxon arrival century?
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