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Dialogues in French and English

By William Caxton

2018-11-27 18:07:54

FROM THE INTRODUCTION......The French of the Paris MS. is the Picard dialect of the former half of the fourteenth century. The French of Caxton’s book retains many of the original north-eastern forms, but is to a considerable extent modernized and ... Read more
FROM THE INTRODUCTION......The French of the Paris MS. is the Picard dialect of the former half of the fourteenth century. The French of Caxton’s book retains many of the original north-eastern forms, but is to a considerable extent modernized and assimilated to the literary language of a later period. Such ‘etymological’ spellings as recepueur, debuoit, are common in Caxton’s text, but rarely occur in Michelant. The following comparative specimen of the two versions will afford some notion of the orthographical and grammatical differences between them, and also of the degree in which Caxton’s English was influenced by his Flemish original. Less

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File size221.186 KB
Print pages84
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2010-01-09
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9783734032653
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William Caxton
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William Caxton (c. 1422 – c. 1491) was an English merchant, diplomat, and writer. He is thought to be the first person to introduce a printing press into England, in 1476, and as a printer was the f...

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