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Old English
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Old English
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1. Also called: Anglo-Saxon
the English language from the time of the earliest settlements in the fifth century ad to about 1100. The main dialects were West Saxon (the chief literary form), Kentish, and Anglian
. Abbreviation: OE Compare Middle English, Modern English2. printing
a Gothic typeface commonly used in England up until the 18th century
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Old English
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the Low German language of the Anglo-Saxons, comprising West Saxon, the major literary dialect, and the Kentish, Northumbrian, and Mercian dialects: it was spoken in England from c. a.d. 450 to c. a.d. 1100
2.
black letter
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Old English
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1. The English language from the middle of the 5th to the beginning of the 12th century. Also called Anglo-Saxon.
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