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Words for time travellers

Become a language time traveller, travelling back in time to explore the history of the English language.

Having looked at the Language timeline  and the Written word timeline, try out these activities and learn how our language has been changing constantly over past centuries.

 

Anglo-Saxon word play

 

Beowulf - page 1

 

Viking words

 

The Norman Conquest

 

Chaucer's English - page 1

 

The Renaissance Shopping Basket

 

The age of dictionaries

 

Victorian contraptions

 

20th century loanwords

 

A Shifting Language

 
 
 

Words for time travellers

Anglo-Saxon word play

Beowulf

Viking words

The Norman Conquest

Chaucer

The Renaissance Shopping Basket

The age of dictionaries

Victorian contraptions

20th century loanwords

A Shifting Language

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