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It’s got Old English on one side and Modern English on the other, you should check it out.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2023
In your best Early Modern English: Bid us, what wast the most wondrous parteth of making “The Tragedy of Macbeth”?
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2022
According to "Fowler's Modern English Usage," there should be, in this case, no comma after "Militia" because what we see in the amendment is an instance of something called "absolute construction."
From Salon • Oct. 25, 2020
The Scots language is sometimes characterized as a sister language of Modern English, and sometimes classified as a dialect.
From Slate • Sep. 9, 2020
Specimens of Anglo-Saxon, and the same literally translated into Modern English.
From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton
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