Middle English by Natália https://padlet.com/tete_saraiva/8tqmbzoth5nl en-us 2017-10-10 15:51:00 UTC 2026-01-26 12:42:12 UTC hello@padlet.com The transition of Old English to Middle English was marked by the Norman Conquest. When William, The Conqueror, invaded the island of Britain. They adopted French but they spoke a rural dialect of it. tete_saraiva https://padlet.com/tete_saraiva/8tqmbzoth5nl/wish/195677020 2017-10-10 15:53:28 UTC https://padlet.com/tete_saraiva/8tqmbzoth5nl/wish/195677020 Anglo Norman French became the language of the royalty and English had no prestige tete_saraiva https://padlet.com/tete_saraiva/8tqmbzoth5nl/wish/195682253 2017-10-10 16:02:47 UTC https://padlet.com/tete_saraiva/8tqmbzoth5nl/wish/195682253 Both languages (Francien and English) developed at the same time and began to intermary. The mixture of Old English and Anglo Norman is the Middle English tete_saraiva https://padlet.com/tete_saraiva/8tqmbzoth5nl/wish/195684307 2017-10-10 16:06:36 UTC https://padlet.com/tete_saraiva/8tqmbzoth5nl/wish/195684307 Sometimes the word survived only in one language and sometimes they were combined tete_saraiva https://padlet.com/tete_saraiva/8tqmbzoth5nl/wish/195685721 2017-10-10 16:09:15 UTC https://padlet.com/tete_saraiva/8tqmbzoth5nl/wish/195685721 The Normans left over than 10.000 words to English tete_saraiva https://padlet.com/tete_saraiva/8tqmbzoth5nl/wish/195686440 2017-10-10 16:10:29 UTC https://padlet.com/tete_saraiva/8tqmbzoth5nl/wish/195686440 Anglo Norman had a harsher and guttural pronunciation while Francien were softer tete_saraiva https://padlet.com/tete_saraiva/8tqmbzoth5nl/wish/195686804 2017-10-10 16:11:03 UTC https://padlet.com/tete_saraiva/8tqmbzoth5nl/wish/195686804 English become the third language in its own country tete_saraiva https://padlet.com/tete_saraiva/8tqmbzoth5nl/wish/195687192 2017-10-10 16:11:47 UTC https://padlet.com/tete_saraiva/8tqmbzoth5nl/wish/195687192 After the Norman Conquest, English emerged as the language od England. The Hundred Year War won part of Normandy. Because of that, the Normans had to look more to England and began to use English as their language, once french now is the language of the enemy. tete_saraiva https://padlet.com/tete_saraiva/8tqmbzoth5nl/wish/195688060 2017-10-10 16:13:29 UTC https://padlet.com/tete_saraiva/8tqmbzoth5nl/wish/195688060 English as the lingua franca tete_saraiva https://padlet.com/tete_saraiva/8tqmbzoth5nl/wish/195690390 2017-10-10 16:17:39 UTC https://padlet.com/tete_saraiva/8tqmbzoth5nl/wish/195690390 All the consonants were pronounced tete_saraiva https://padlet.com/tete_saraiva/8tqmbzoth5nl/wish/195691450 2017-10-10 16:19:38 UTC https://padlet.com/tete_saraiva/8tqmbzoth5nl/wish/195691450 The Black Death killed many of the clergy who spoke Latin tete_saraiva https://padlet.com/tete_saraiva/8tqmbzoth5nl/wish/195692084 2017-10-10 16:20:47 UTC https://padlet.com/tete_saraiva/8tqmbzoth5nl/wish/195692084 After the plague, England grew in economy and English become the official language in court, politics and school tete_saraiva https://padlet.com/tete_saraiva/8tqmbzoth5nl/wish/195692404 2017-10-10 16:21:23 UTC https://padlet.com/tete_saraiva/8tqmbzoth5nl/wish/195692404 Latin were only used written, in court and by the Church tete_saraiva https://padlet.com/tete_saraiva/8tqmbzoth5nl/wish/195693301 2017-10-10 16:22:49 UTC https://padlet.com/tete_saraiva/8tqmbzoth5nl/wish/195693301 Grammar were simpler in Middle English. Word form subject-verb-object was the order. Now, the plural nouns were marked by the "-s" ending from french tete_saraiva https://padlet.com/tete_saraiva/8tqmbzoth5nl/wish/195694119 2017-10-10 16:24:03 UTC https://padlet.com/tete_saraiva/8tqmbzoth5nl/wish/195694119