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Royal Chancery Standard

The periods in the History of English | Romanization of England | The Scandinavian invasions. Vikings | Germanic invasion | Characteristics of Old English. | GRAMMAR OF OLD ENGLISH | Poetic riddles - | The Norman Conquest, the subjection of English, 1066-1200 | French Influence on Middle English Vocabulary | ENGLISH AS A WORLD LANGUAGE |


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l In the early 1400s, young men who had been educated first in English rather than French began to take their places within the royal administration. By 1420–30, these men were now in positions of considerable authority. In using a written English derived from the practices of a limited number of London schools, a new, highly influential, ‘house style’ began to spread in the administration. This house style – dubbed Chancery Standard after the Royal Chancery by scholars – was quickly exported outside government.

 

Shakespeare coined 2000 words and gave us countless phrases:

l to be or not to be,

l to be cruel to be kind,

l flesh and blood,

l cold comfort,

l remembrance of things past,

l the sound and the fury,

l vanish into thin air,

l in my mind’s eye etc…

Semantic changes in English:

Shakespearean English VS Current English

foolish nice

a cold in the head rheumatism


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