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i GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE 639 II -Cfngltei Eancjuacje Show by examples the relation of Anglo-Saxon to Mceso- Gothic also its relation to what is commonly known as German State and illustrate Grimm Law "What is meant by dialectic growth What by phonetic decay Divide the history of our language into periods with brief description of each and י chronological list of the foreign languages that have chiefly influenced our vocabulary Give some account of the letter and its various uses and corruptions from Anglo-Saxon times downwards What are the organs of speech מ How are vowel sounds produced How consonant Derive stranger-aisle-colonel-eleven-such-as- am-neighbour-squire-Canterbury Give examples of what are called excrescent letters Explain the in everywhere the in handiwork מ the in in nightingale How was the preterite of strong verbs originally formed How that of weak Explain the ing the en and the of the participles Show by examples how one word becomes two and also how words strive to be homogeneous יי Give the substance of Dryden remarks on neologies Give as full an account as you can of the word its 10 Explain and comment upon these sentences It is great but very widely spread error to suppose that the influx of French words in the fourteenth century was due alone to poetry and other branches of pure literature Thus in the hundred years after Chaucer had pene- trated words such as would never have established them- selves here if the French already domesticated among us had not prepared their way bridged over the gulph that would have otherwise been too wide between them and the Saxon vocables of our tongue and suggested the models on which these latter adoptions should be formed