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GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE 629 Derive crusade-cannibal pedant ditto chess- assassin-talisman-jubilee-caste-chagrin Define the term dialect and give some account of the leading English dialects Show how in English word may unchanged belong to two or even three 'parts of speech How has this come to be possible What is the proper meaning of the term gender Illustrate your answer from Latin and from Anglo-Saxon What were our oldest and what are the present ways of making nouns denote the feminine sex From what Anglo-Saxon declension are the current inflections of nouns derived Of what other declensions are there traces Thoroughly refute the statement that the of the possessive case is corruption of his How did such an error arise 10 Distinguish between the strong and the weak declensions of adjectives in Anglo-Saxon Point out traces of the latter in Chaucer 11 Derive next-less-foremost-most-nether-first- hundred-ten-twenty-eleven 12 Point out any distinctions that may be observed in the use of who and that 13 Explain many man-its-hers-whose-he himse -we ourselves-tohat sight-ivhat with wind what with rain we could not get on-I'll tell you what-every other day 14 What is the origin of the form of the preterite of the strong conjugation What of that of the weak Explain the vowel change in sold from sell Give examples of verbs that have changed their conjugation Why has the strong preterite sometimes two forms 15 Translate with notes where needed We han wyndowe wirchyng Hit snew to hem as hit were floure Thritti yeir es sij en gan at mi sun had losen dere The knyhtes thet hine ledden bitauhten him pe rode