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Table of Contents
Part I.
Pre-English Britain
55 BC – 500 AD.….
1
Chapter 1.
When Togas and Latin Came to Britannia.….
3
Caesar Conquers Gaul
and Britannia.
3
Fighting Druids.
5
Constantine.
7
The Gospel in a
Shamrock.
8
Rome Gets Vandal-ized.
9
The End of an Empire
and the Close of an Age.
10
Chapter 2.
Well, We’re Through with the Romans,
So Who’s Next?.….
11
How Do You Un-Invite
a Jute?.
11
King Arthur and the
Knights of the Round Table.
13
Part II. Old English
500 - 1066…..
15
Chapter 3.
A Little About Language…..
17
Old English.
17
The Grammar Game
The Language Law..
19
Language—Evidence
for Design.
21
Sir William Jones
Goes to India.
22
The Brothers Grimm..
23
An Inflected
Language.
24
More Invasions.
26
Chapter 4.
The Invasion of the Church and of Latin…..
27
Augustine of
Canterbury.
27
Bert and Bertha.
29
From Saxon Runes to
Roman Alphabet.
30
The Gast and the God
Spell
31
Our Pagan Days.
31
Latin: An
International Language for Scholars.
32
The Language that
Became a Prison.
32
Illuminated
Manuscripts.
34
The “Our Father”.
35
I Hate to Be
Confusing, But...
36
A Monk You Should
Know: The Venerable Bede.
37
Beowulf
39
Cædmon’s Hymn: A
Closer Look at Anglo-Saxon Poetry.
39
A Summary of Our
History So Far: To Britain.
42
Chapter 5.
The Invasion of the Vikings and Old Norse.….
45
The Original Meaning
of Berserk.
45
King Alfred.
47
King Cnut.
50
Old Norse Meets Old
English.
50
Part III. Middle
English
1066 - 1500…..
55
Chapter 6.
The Invasion of the Normans and Old French.….
57
William the Conqueror.
57
Language du Jour.
59
The Abandoned
Chronicle.
60
Chapter 7.
The Making of Middle English…..
63
The Beginning of the
Middle.
63
Losing Our Gutturals.
63
WH and CW Bite the
Dust.
64
From Hog in the
Barnyard to Pork on the Table.
65
The Hundred Years’
War.
66
Geoffrey Chaucer.
68
John Wycliffe and
the First English Bible.
69
From Fæder to Fadir.
71
Some
Þoughts On
Þ.
72
Chapter 8.
And the Word Became...Print! .….
75
Johannes Gutenberg.
75
The Mystery of
English Spelling.
77
Spelling Caxton’s
Way.
77
English Spelling and
the Great Vowel Shift.
78
Part IV. A Time of
Transition– From Middle to Modern English
1400 – 1600 (or thereabouts)…..
81
Chapter 9.
The Invasion of Greek…..
83
The Middle, the
Modern, and the In-Between.
83
Rebirth of Ancient
Knowledge.
84
The Byzantine Empire.
85
Re-Capturing Greek.
86
A Well-Documented
Faith.
86
All this Plus Print.
88
Greek-Speak.
88
Chapter 10.
“Sola Fide”— A Battle Cry for Faith.….
91
Martin Luther.
91
Purchasing
Salvation—Hmmm. Didn’t Jesus Already
Do That?.
93
The End of the
Middle.
95
Part V. The Making of
the English Bible
1526 - 1611…..
97
Chapter 11.
English Contraband: Fulfilling Wycliffe's Dream…..
99
Outlawing English.
99
Enter Henry VIII.
100
Scriptures for a
Ploughboy.
101
Erasmus.
103
Translation
Trailblazing.
103
Tyndale’s Word
Choices.
104
Tyndale’s Inventions.
105
Translating the
Bible—A Political Activity?.
106
Chapter 12.
Of Kings and Wives and Martyrs.….
109
Obsession for a Son.
109
When a Powerful King
Wants an Unobtainable Divorce.
110
Heads Begin to Roll
110
The 1534 Convocation
of Canterbury.
111
A Prayer for the
King.
111
Chapter 13.
The Bible That Was Named for a King.….
115
The Geneva Bible.
115
A Succession of
Monarchs.
115
James I of England.
116
The Apocrypha.
118
Southern Dialect
Wins Again.
118
The English Civil
War and the Bible.
119
America and The King
James Bible.
120
Euphemisms and
Shifting Sensibilities.
120
Whacky but True:
Shakespeare in a Psalm..
121
Those Lingering
Pronouns for God.
124
The Legacy.
125
The Man Behind the
Team..
126
Part VI. Shakespeare
and Modern English
From 1500 Onward…..127
Chapter 14.
Shakespeare…..
129
A Class By Himself
129
Shakespeare’s
Inventions.
130
The Extent of His
Knowledge.
131
His Insight.
132
Chapter 15.
If Only King Alfred Could See Us Now! …..
135
The Genesis of
Grammar Rules. 135
I Ain't Going to Use
No Double Negatives.
136
That or Which?
. 136
A Few Predictions.
137
The Largest
Dictionary in the World. 138
The British Empire.
138
English--American
Style.
139
New Words for a New
Age.
140
Outlawing E-mail
141
Liberté Pour Les
Mots! (Liberty for Words!).
141
Mr. Crapper.
142
How Words Morph and
Mutate.
143
The Biggest Language
Invasion of All: English Invades
the World.
144
Resources…..
147
About the Author…..
151
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