Early Modern English

Question 1

What is vernacular?

Answer 1

Spoken varieties of English

Question 2

Who is a key example of EME?

Answer 2

Shakespeare

Question 3

Around what time did EME emerge?

Answer 3

Around 1500

Question 4

What invention to the emergence of EME from ME?

Answer 4

The printing press

Question 5

What was the dialect that became SE?

Answer 5

East Midlands

Question 6

Why did the EM dialect become SE?

Answer 6

Most printing was done in London.

Question 7

What political thing led to an increasing in literacy?

Answer 7

Beginning of Tudor dynasty

Question 8

Who introduced the printing press to England?

Answer 8

William Caxton

Question 9

What process was English undergoing during the formation of EME?

Answer 9

Standardisation

Question 10

What linguistic event caused variance in spelling from ME to EME?

Answer 10

The great vowel shift.

Question 11

The first … was published in 1604

Answer 11

English dictionary (Cawdrey)

Question 12

The first … was published in 1604

Answer 12

English dictionary (Cawdrey)

Question 13

What was one of the most influential texts in the consolidation of EME?

Answer 13

King James Bible

Question 14

What did the scientific renaissance cause?

Answer 14

Latin and Greek terms being imported to English.

Question 15

There was high literacy in the EME period. The existence of … reflects this.

Answer 15

The daily Courant

Question 16

Grammarians imposed rules similar to what prestigious language?

Answer 16

Latin.

Question 17

What type of English emerges in 1800?

Answer 17

Modern English

Question 18

What has happened by 1800 that allows a new era of English to rise?

Answer 18

Standardisation (largely) of spelling, grammar and vocabulary.

Question 19

What were the EME pronouns?

Answer 19

Thou/ thee, You/ye.

Question 20

Why did EME pronouns turn into one pronoun?

Answer 20

Less hierarchy

Question 21

What did the EME verb endings ‘-est’ and ‘eth’ become in PDE?

Answer 21

‘-s’

Question 22

What part of a PDE question is missing in the following: “Know you this man?”

Answer 22

Auxiliary verb ‘do’

Question 23

Why does EME have double negatives but PDE doesn’t?

Answer 23

Standardisation in 18th century and imposed Latin rules.

Question 24

What, at the start of a word, was the phoneme
‘/u/‘ denoted as in EME?

Answer 24

The grapheme <v></v>

Question 25

In the middle of a word, what grapheme did the phoneme /v/ use?

Answer 25

<u></u>

Question 26

Why were <v> and <u> often swapped in EME?</u></v>

Answer 26

Clarity of print

Question 27

It the following an example of deviant spelling? “Betwykst mine sheeyts”

Answer 27

No.

Question 28

Why is “we wor a cap of much sygnifikance” not classed as deviant spelling?

Answer 28

Because spelling was not standardised so the was nothing to be deviant from.