This section contains the worked examples and textual analyses of many Activities from the book. It also provides additional material on Old English pronunciation and Old English grammar, as well as additional chapters on English spelling today and the development of English spelling.

Activity 01.1 Texts 1-3 | PDF Document | (0.131Mb)

Activity 01.4 Original word meanings | PDF Document | (0.071Mb)

Activity 05.1 Peterborough Chronicle for 1140 | PDF Document | (0.175Mb)

Activity 07.1 Commentary, The Fox & the Wolf | PDF Document | (0.152Mb)

Activity 10.3 York Lay Folk’s Catechism | PDF Document | (0.24Mb)

Activity 10.4 Northern dialect in Chaucer’s Reeve’s Tale | PDF Document | (0.243Mb)

Activity 11.3 Piers Plowman | PDF Document | (0.15Mb)

Activity 13.3 Text 82, Chaucer’s Summoner’s Tale/Reeve’s Tale | PDF Document | (0.212Mb)

Activity 14.1 Margery Kempe, Texts 84-7, linguistic features | PDF Document | (0.217Mb)

Activity 14.3 Caxton’s spelling | PDF Document | (0.191Mb)

Activity 14.4 Malory, scribal spelling Text 95 | PDF Document | (0.181Mb)

Activity 14.5 Cely letters | PDF Document | (0.072Mb)

Activity 16.2 16th century national dialects in Henry V | PDF Document | (0.167Mb)

Activity 16.3 thou/thee and ye/you in Much Adoe About Nothing | PDF Document | (0.157Mb)

Activity 17.1 & 17.2 Evidence of pronunciation changes from 17th century occasional spellings | PDF Document | (0.138Mb)

Activity 17.4 Sir Thomas Browne, formal syntax | PDF Document | (0.18Mb)

Activity 17.6 George Fox’s Journal, grammatical structure of oral narrative | PDF Document | (0.159Mb)

Activity 17.7 Milton Areopagitica, Text 130, stylistic analysis | PDF Document | (0.221Mb)

Activity 17.8 John Evelyn’s Diary & the Publick Inelligencer, 1657 | PDF Document | (0.112Mb)

Activity 18.1 John Bunyan, the language of The Pilgrims Progress | PDF Document | (0.143Mb)

Activity 18.2 Fox & Hookes Instructions for Right Spelling, 1673 | PDF Document | (0.099Mb)

Activity 18.3 Christopher Cooper The English Teacher, 1687 | PDF Document | (0.102Mb)

Activity 18.7 John Dryden on Chaucer | PDF Document | (0.126Mb)

Activity 18.8 George Meriton’s A Yorkshire Dialogue, 1683 | PDF Document | (0.196Mb)

Activity 19.5 Samuel Johnson, “The advantages of mediocrity”, The Rambler, July 1750 | PDF Document | (0,144Mb)

Activity 21.1 Grammar of conversational English | PDF Document | (0.211Mb)

English spelling today - a summary | PDF Document | (0.188Mb)

The development of present-day English spelling – a summary | PDF Document | (1.87Mb)

Chaucer’s rhymes as evidence of changes in pronunciation | PDF Document | (0.147Mb)

Old English pronunciation & spelling | Chapter 3 | PDF Document | (0.959Mb)

Old English grammar | Chapter 4 | PDF Document | (0.248Mb)

Transcription & translation, remainder of facsimile of La Jamon’s Brut | Chapter 6 | PDF Document | (0.319Mb)

Transcription & translation, facsimile of The Owl & the Nightingale | Chapter 6 | PDF Document | (0.338Mb)

Facsimile & transcription, folio of MS of South English Legendary | Chapter 7 | PDF Document | (0.401Mb)

Spelling & pronunciation in Sir Gawayn | Chapter 11 | PDF Document | (0.152Mb)