THE POCKET YORKSHIRE ENGLISH
The roots of Yorkshire's dialects resulted in the mixing of Anglo-Saxon speakers with Scandinavian settlers from the 8th to the 11th centuries. To understand each other, they dropped gender, word endings, and complex conjugations from their languages. The resulting simplified Anglo-Saxon Middle English lingua franca spread throughout England. Illus.
Format: Hardbound
Publisher: Gemini
Publishing status: Current
ISBN: 9781786751874
Item #: 9204466
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