How To Use Modern english In A Sentence
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Weak verbs correspond to modern English regular verbs.
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Hubris, sometimes spelled hybris ancient Greek ὕβρις, is a term used in modern English to indicate overweening pride, self-confidence, superciliousness, or arrogance, often resulting in fatal retribution.
Touchy, Touchy: Catching Up With "The Climb"
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I just feel more comfortable with being able to pigeon-hole a language's typology into one of these 4 four categories or at least somewhere in between like Modern English which is supposed to be fusional-isolating.
Languagehat.com: GENDER DIFFERENCES IN CHINESE.
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Modern English; New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew.
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Students may not use the college car park. The form mayn't is almost never used in modern English.
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We're already losing the word, and I doubt my children will use it any more than I use archaisms from Postmodern English.
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Early Modern English is represented in documents printed from 1476 to 1700
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You see, there are two great families of dialects in modern English: the rhotic ones and the non-rhotic ones.
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Students may not use the college car park. The form mayn't is almost never used in modern English.
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Elsewhere (and prevalently) confusing or misleading information is given (e.g., [at brail] "Earlier spelled brale, it came from Old French, braile, belt."): Is the inference to be that the modern English word brail was borrowed from Old French in the fifteenth century?
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3
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These new arrivals from the continent renamed the landscape, towns, and many of the rivers in their own tongue so that only a handful of pre-Anglo Saxon British words-such as mattock, brock, bannock-remain in modern English.
Futureofthebook.com
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The range of swear words in the modern English-speaking world is tiny, as you know.
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The Old English word ‘thyrse’ or ‘thurse’ is obsolete in modern English but occasionally appears in place names, e.g.
Old English gods and myths: Eotens
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Just begging to be used as a hero's name :- The "Wester" element looks recognisably Old English, but the "falcon" or "falca" bit looks to me like it could derive from Latin 'falco', which is where we get the modern English 'falcon' but via Middle English and Old French.
Aelle of Deira
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Here follows, etymological notes and a transfiguration (though poor) into modern English.
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modern English is a syncretic language
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[Footnote 1: Brunehault (in modern English histories called Brunhild) was the wife of Sigebert, King of Austrasia (that district of France which lies between the Meuse and the Rhine) and son of Clotaire I.
Letters of Horace Walpole 01
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Ceuta, which bears the modern English name of Apes 'Hill, was then designated Abyla; and Calpe and Abyla, at least according to an ancient and widely current interpretation, formed the renowned pillars of Hercules (Herculis columnæ), which for centuries were the limits of enterprise to the seafaring peoples of the Mediterranean world.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889
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She pursues her task ambitiously, tirelessly, and scrupulously through the major texts of three canonical writers of early modern English literature.
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In modern English all the disyllabic and trisyllabic words have only recessive stress, e.g. colour, marriage.
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H.W. Fowler wrote about them incisively in his 1926 Dictionary of Modern English Usage, though most of the specific words he considered — such as casuistic and casuistical, diabolic and diabolical — don’t trouble us anymore.
Word Court
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Many of the strictures in Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage are against anacolutha of this kind.
On anacolutha
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You have always been fond of quaint and archaic words, so I shall speak to you in your own idiom, rather than vainly attempting to adopt the modes and manners of modern English, as she is spoken today.
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On verse 20: Nope -- "shut up" means two things in modern English, but the Greek κατακλείω only has the sense of 'incarcerate'.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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In #10, *kap-ut gives Latin 'caput' and Germanic *hauβuð German 'Haupt, Dutch 'hoofd', OE 'heafod' Modern English 'head'.
PIE "look-alike stems" - Evidence of something or a red herring?
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The only noun inflexion preserved in Modern English is the possessive ending ‘s’ which is a survival of the common Germanic masculine singular genitive case ending.
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The Normans' attempt to foist their language on their subjects would eventually result in the mongrelism of Middle English which explains modern English's glut of synonyms.
Gothic buildings: pillars of faith
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It was clear that many viewed the famed incompetence of the modern English housewife and mother with bemusement.
Times, Sunday Times
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Students may not use the college car park. The form mayn't is almost never used in modern English.
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Because of this, Modern English includes many Latin and Greek words.
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With certain ambiguities in literary Chinese (which is sort of a cross between Latin and shorthand, for a modern English analogy), the argument is either that if you want a white horse, you don’t want just any horse, so a “white” horse is not “a” horse.
Matthew Yglesias » Sleep Deprivation
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It is now widely believed that these early dictionaries have a useful, but not revisionist role to play in understanding Early Modern English: they can supply the OED with some neglected rare words, new illustrative quotations, and many antedatings.
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A community electing its own governor and enacting whatever laws it pleases is not a colony in the modern English meaning of the word.
True History of the American Revolution « Isegoria
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Funny to hit this posting a few minutes after reading a post at Balloon Juice about the Conservapedia project to retranslate the Bible (from the original King James to modern English), in the process cleaning up the liberal-biased language and the parts of the Gospels that are inauthentic (liberal) interpolations, and laying proper emphasis on the parables that show the values of the free market.
The Bible Around The Blogosphere
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I'm writing a grammar of modern English.
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I've never heard approvement in this sense in modern English.
On tolerating
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One such word was bancus, for the ancient “workbench” whose name has a common ancestor—in the Germanic line—with the Modern English word bench.
The English Is Coming!
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There doesn't seem to be any trace of pronominal affixes attached to verbs like we might find in many other languages that surrounded it like the inflection hell endured in Latin, Phoenician and Greek and it opted for a more analytic approach by using independent pronouns, much like in Modern English.
Enclitics and noun phrases in Etruscan
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Old English sounds riddled with anastrophe to speakers of Modern English.
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What a pretty word lithe is - so pretty that in modern English it is probably most used of young women.
Litha (June): the early English calendar
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I have noticed a lot of what seems to me to be over-hyphenization in modern English.
Stupid grammar rules I: Email vs. e-mail « Motivated Grammar
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One of the oldest lines of modern English verse is the so-called septenary (septenarius), having had a nearly continuous tradition from the twelfth-century Poema Morale down (in its divided form) to the present.
The Principles of English Versification
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Modern English hangnail is said to derive from Old English agnail, not related to hanging or nails, but rather referring to a painful corn on the foot and derived from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning ‘tight’ or ‘painful’.
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Things might have turned out differently for Modern English if the genitive ending for another class of Old English noun had prevailed over the one taking an -s.
The English Is Coming!
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Look at how -s performs multiple roles in Modern English: the English as a Second Language teacher says the word bridge.
The English Is Coming!
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Modern English has also lost its system of classifying nouns into three grammatical genders, as still occurs in German.
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Modern English comes from the East Midland dialect of Middle English.
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The time-travel scenes are unconvincing: Will runs into a Viking who speaks by grunting noncommittally and runs into some seventeenth-century Brits who speak in unaccented modern English.
Archive 2007-10-01
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Here are some events that changed the language in its phases as Middle English (from 1066 to 1500) and Early Modern English (1500 to 1800):
The English Is Coming!
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Under modern English law, however, a lack of consent only renders a marriage voidable.
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Thus, the modern English setter was developed through selective breeding during the 19th century.
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I'm writing a grammar of modern English.
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It is generally accepted that modern English literature was born in the second half of the 16th Century which was coeval with the Age of Elizabeth and the Renaissance.
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The entire corpus of Modern English prose has grown up since, and been influenced by, the works of Tyndale and Coverdale, and during the formative period of the early translations there was little other widely available reading matter.
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Most Modern English vowels are diphthongs, so obeying the ‘one sound, one letter’ rule demands either pairing of vowel letters or replacing all our current vowel sounds with the fewer pure sounds, as in Italian and Spanish.
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In this essay, the Latin term dominium will be used to distinguish Wyclif's theologically medieval view from its modern English correlate
John Wyclif's Political Philosophy
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I'm writing a grammar of modern English.
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Broadly defined, a doublet is a pair of cognate words, almost always of Latin or Greco-Latin origin, of which one (here always placed second) retains a form close to the source, while the other has diverged by having passed through Old and Middle French and thence into Middle and Modern English -- though French is occasionally by-passed.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 4
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Her sparky mix of hip hop beats, sing-a-long choruses and sharply observational lyrics about modern English life made her an internet sensation before she even released a record.
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Look at how -s performs multiple roles in Modern English: the English as a Second Language teacher says the word bridge.
The English Is Coming!
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Modern English
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From the point of view of modern English criticism, which likes to be melted, and horrified, and astonished, and blood-curdled, and goose - fleshed, no less than to be "chippered up" in fiction, Senor Valdes were indeed incorrigible.
Literature and Life (Complete)
