These words form part of the discussion of the readings for this section, and you should become familiar with them. You can find them defined separately in the Glossary in the back of our textbook, as well as the online glossary on this site.

Norman French, Anglo-Norman, or French of England
Parisian French
yogh
function words
levelling of inflected endings
scribal -e
SVO
dialect

1066 Norman Conquest; William crowned King of England
1204 King John loses Normandy
1348-1350 Plague
1337-1453 Hundred Years War
1400 death of Geoffrey Chaucer
1476 Caxton's printing press