... Northumbria (north of the Humber), Mercian in the Kingdom of Mercia, West Saxon in the Kingdom of Wessex and Kentish in Kent. (Lecture Notes N. Ordenova) During the 7th and 8th Centuries, the Northhumbrian language and culture dominated Britain, but the Viking invasion of the 9th Century brought ... that began around 1400. While modern English speakers can read with difficulty of cause the works of Chaucer, the pronunciation of Chaucer's works would have been completely unintelligible to the modern speaker. Shakespeare on the other hand would be intonated but not understandable. Vowel sou...

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