Historical Language Change by https://padlet.com/dstamp4/wmups8xgtesd Track your learning en-us 2016-11-23 03:08:43 UTC 2026-03-21 17:30:31 UTC hello@padlet.com Letters and symbols dstamp4 https://padlet.com/dstamp4/wmups8xgtesd/wish/139510093 Certain symbols are no longer in use - the thorn that signifies a 'th' sound' . This still exists in Icelandic orthography, however. Why did it 'die'?]]> 2016-11-23 05:34:22 UTC https://padlet.com/dstamp4/wmups8xgtesd/wish/139510093 U and V https://padlet.com/dstamp4/wmups8xgtesd/wish/139510158 U and V were used interchangeably in Old English and Middle English, most likely because it was the case in Latin, which was the lingua franca of Europe.]]> 2016-11-23 05:35:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dstamp4/wmups8xgtesd/wish/139510158 D in father becomes a th sound. Shifting phonology of the language dstamp4 https://padlet.com/dstamp4/wmups8xgtesd/wish/139510166 why do the sounds of words change?]]> 2016-11-23 05:36:06 UTC https://padlet.com/dstamp4/wmups8xgtesd/wish/139510166 K https://padlet.com/dstamp4/wmups8xgtesd/wish/139510410 In anglo saxon English Hs used to be Ks (skield was changed into shield after the 6th century)]]> 2016-11-23 05:40:27 UTC https://padlet.com/dstamp4/wmups8xgtesd/wish/139510410 Swa swa = just as, a kind of conjunction that has died out dstamp4 https://padlet.com/dstamp4/wmups8xgtesd/wish/139510428 2016-11-23 05:40:41 UTC https://padlet.com/dstamp4/wmups8xgtesd/wish/139510428 Archaic pronouns - thou, thee, thy, thine dstamp4 https://padlet.com/dstamp4/wmups8xgtesd/wish/139510477
Equivalent to tu in French. ]]> 2016-11-23 05:41:44 UTC https://padlet.com/dstamp4/wmups8xgtesd/wish/139510477 Printing presses https://padlet.com/dstamp4/wmups8xgtesd/wish/139510502 ... are imported from germany and didn't have letters such as thorn or wynn which is why they fell out of use

]]> 2016-11-23 05:42:30 UTC https://padlet.com/dstamp4/wmups8xgtesd/wish/139510502 Letters that have died out: https://padlet.com/dstamp4/wmups8xgtesd/wish/139510635 AE - Ash
(The symbol resembling t): eth
(symbol resembling P): Wyn
(Symbol resembling y) ond

]]> 2016-11-23 05:45:37 UTC https://padlet.com/dstamp4/wmups8xgtesd/wish/139510635 Soþlice https://padlet.com/dstamp4/wmups8xgtesd/wish/139510645 Soþlice (Last word in the Old English version), is a word that died out. It meant truly/sincerely, and is now replaced with "Amen". ]]> 2016-11-23 05:45:49 UTC https://padlet.com/dstamp4/wmups8xgtesd/wish/139510645 The 'and' symbol https://padlet.com/dstamp4/wmups8xgtesd/wish/139510662 There are letters in the Old English that are used nowadays in a different way. For example, '&' (and, et). ]]> 2016-11-23 05:46:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dstamp4/wmups8xgtesd/wish/139510662 Art becomes 'are'. dstamp4 https://padlet.com/dstamp4/wmups8xgtesd/wish/139510904 2016-11-23 05:51:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dstamp4/wmups8xgtesd/wish/139510904