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Definition of East midland
1. Noun. The dialect of Middle English that replaced West Saxon as the literary language and which developed into Modern English.
Lexicographical Neighbors of East Midland
Literary usage of East midland
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the by Richard Morris, British Library (1864)
"specimens of the Northumbrian and East-Midland idioms during the twelfth and
thirteenth centuries. There must surely be some records of these dialects in ..."
2. A Middle English Reader by Oliver Farrar Emerson (1905)
"I. THE MIDLAND DIALECT A. EARLY east midland I. THE PETERBOROUGH CHRONICLE.
Dis gear com Henri King to Tpis land, pa com Henri abbot and ..."
3. English Farming Past & Present by Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1917)
"... in breaking up or maintaining the open-field system : the east midland and
North Eastern group of counties : improved methods and increased resources of ..."
4. A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1400 by John Edwin Wells (1916)
"South-West Midland: Song of Roland (1350-1400). South-east midland: Tales of
Chaucer and Gower; Titus and Vet- pasian (couplet version, c. 1375-1400). ..."
5. Outlines of the History of the English Language by Thomas Northcote Toller (1900)
"1300—Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle—its vocabulary—its grammar — the East
Midland dialect — Robert of ..."
6. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"An east midland dialect, extending from south Lincolnshire to London, ... Finally,
between the east midland and south-western, in the countie» of Buckingham ..."
7. History of English: A Sketch of the Origin and Development of the English by Arthur Charles Champneys (1893)
"(1) Already before Chaucer's time the east midland dialect was encroaching upon
the others. In the early part of the thirteenth century Oxford was beyond ..."
8. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"An east midland dialect, extending from south Lincolnshire to London, ... Finally,
between the east midland and south-western, in the counties of Buckingham ..."
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