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Thursday, November 8, 2012

Intro to Etymology - Chapter One

• English is divided into three phases: Old, Middle, and Modern

• Old: ?-1100

• Middle: 1100-1500

• Modern: 1500-Present

• Each part of the language has an approximate 50-100 year transition period between the phases

• Part of the Indo-European family of languages, and more specifically, West Germanic

• Three classical I.E. languages: Greek, Latin, and. Sanskrit
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