Development of Standard English by Rownak Noor LABIBA https://padlet.com/lab0012/q4st5is2oonpprbu en-us 2022-07-19 04:23:14 UTC 2022-07-20 04:52:22 UTC hello@padlet.com Old English Period lab0012 https://padlet.com/lab0012/q4st5is2oonpprbu/wish/2245896939 During the old English period, there were four principal dialects: 
  • Kentish
  • Mercian 
  • Northumbria
  • West Saxon. 
although, there were slight differences in these dialects at that time.
]]> 2022-07-19 04:26:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lab0012/q4st5is2oonpprbu/wish/2245896939 Middle English Period lab0012 https://padlet.com/lab0012/q4st5is2oonpprbu/wish/2245900079 The four major dialects then changed. 
  • Northumbrian -> Northern dialect 
  • Mercian -> Midlands dialect 
  • West Saxon -> Southern dialect 
Kentish remained the same
]]> 2022-07-19 04:30:46 UTC https://padlet.com/lab0012/q4st5is2oonpprbu/wish/2245900079 West Saxon Dialect lab0012 https://padlet.com/lab0012/q4st5is2oonpprbu/wish/2245903855 The West Saxon dialect was the basis of our grammatical descriptions of language at that time. West Saxon came very close to a kind of literary standard but the process was interrupted by the Normal Conquest in 1066.]]> 2022-07-19 04:35:55 UTC https://padlet.com/lab0012/q4st5is2oonpprbu/wish/2245903855 Loss of West Saxon lab0012 https://padlet.com/lab0012/q4st5is2oonpprbu/wish/2245907071 When English was being written again after being submerged by French for several centuries, people wrote in their local variety(using their own forms of spelling as they used and heard ). Therefore, West Saxon lost its edge. ]]> 2022-07-19 04:40:50 UTC https://padlet.com/lab0012/q4st5is2oonpprbu/wish/2245907071 Rise of London English lab0012 https://padlet.com/lab0012/q4st5is2oonpprbu/wish/2245911783 During Late Middle English, around 1400s London English came into limelight after it being used mainly for the business of government. 
A series of events followed that brought London English more into limelight- 
  • Chaucer helped with the prestige of London dialect. 
  • William Caxton setting up his printing press in Westminster, London in 1476 shot London Eng into prominence.
]]> 2022-07-19 04:48:04 UTC https://padlet.com/lab0012/q4st5is2oonpprbu/wish/2245911783 “Standard” English lab0012 https://padlet.com/lab0012/q4st5is2oonpprbu/wish/2245917135 English was still not codified even after the release of printing. Spelling and punctuation was inconsistent foil that time period. Therefore variant spellings were used. 


]]> 2022-07-19 04:56:55 UTC https://padlet.com/lab0012/q4st5is2oonpprbu/wish/2245917135 Right vs. wrong lab0012 https://padlet.com/lab0012/q4st5is2oonpprbu/wish/2246647367 Beginning of 16th century developed, 
  • Right sort of language
  • Wrong sort of language (looked down upon).
]]> 2022-07-20 04:08:54 UTC https://padlet.com/lab0012/q4st5is2oonpprbu/wish/2246647367 Jonathan Swift lab0012 https://padlet.com/lab0012/q4st5is2oonpprbu/wish/2246648246 Standardisation took off in the 18th century mainly when Jonathan Swift proposed that “[English] is extremely imperfect” through his piece of compliant literature “A proposal of Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English tongue in 1712.He believed that the language shouldn’t be changing and should be standardised in a way in which it shouldn’t keep changing. ]]> 2022-07-20 04:10:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lab0012/q4st5is2oonpprbu/wish/2246648246 The English Spelling System lab0012 https://padlet.com/lab0012/q4st5is2oonpprbu/wish/2246665321 English spelling had been evolving for over a thousand years. English had to be modified however complications rose from the French and many European printers imposed several new spelling conventions of their own. 

Therefore, when spelling settled down,  there were massive sound changes.]]> 2022-07-20 04:40:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lab0012/q4st5is2oonpprbu/wish/2246665321 Spelling! lab0012 https://padlet.com/lab0012/q4st5is2oonpprbu/wish/2246673539 In order to rationalise s speaking, scholars changed certain words to like similar words, ex: coude-> could to look more like would. 

English has inadequate alphabet, language change, imaginative respellings, borrowed words and spelling conventions. It is neither totally consistent nor globally standardised. However it is phonetically representative and grammatically sound which is seen in spellings such as electric -electricity and electrician where the relationship of these words is preserved despite the different pronunciations. ]]> 2022-07-20 04:52:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lab0012/q4st5is2oonpprbu/wish/2246673539