The only stupid reason that 6 different languages are introduced in the 17th century is that is when Samuel Johnston butchered inglis to form some sort of stupid Oxford bling dictionary *re-introducing* words & wrongly defining them..............They were always part of the language of Inglis or English.
Actually the first English language dictionary was published in 1592 by Richard Mulcaster. The next in 1609 by Robert Cawdrey.
Dictionaries don't change the language anyway, people don't learn to speak their native language from them, they learn from other people. People change how dictionaries are written, dictionaries don't change how people talk.
Otherwise our language would never change.
(there wouldn't be so many regional dialects for example)
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This is great Painted Wolf,Richard Mulcaster sounds a real character,his blog on Wiki is outstanding........his work is flawed but outstanding,according to the information he is privy too.....He got really ****** off that the language everybody spoke was so disorganised(in limited view)
Robert Cawdrey is great too,the most significant part being that he refers to words *loaned* from Greek,French,latin etc.
My criticism is that he is speaking in ignorance here as these words were ALWAYS INGLIS,as soon as they were absorbed(Greek).Latin is different as it is a younger language which was formed FROM Inglis.
If you strip away those words alledgedly *borrowed*(especially Greek-Gaels trained in Crete,Gaythelos the Gael) throughout the ages,all you are left with basic Norse/Arabic exactly in terms of the Arabian's book in the first entry.
Once again,the brightly coloured map has NOTHING TO DO WITH INGLIS,it is merely a list of the Royal languages of counties of occupation,then ridiculous made up stuff near the end after the *renaissance* period.
This makes Samuel Johnstons pathetic Oxford later effort look even more pathetic.
In Scotland we have the dictionair of the Scots lead,which is online.I'll attach a link for you to try & prove.
For a truer experience of Inglis(always the language of the Scots court) there is an encylopedia of the Scots language which paints a beautiful picture of the vocabulary in 14th/15th century Scotland.It is about 30 volumes.
I only have very limited access to this,usually I rely upon the poets of the day,the Makars/Bards of the day.
Very cool link,strengthens my argument on Inglis no end.
I am grateful for the best effort I have ever seen, & not even by an Englishmen either,a Cherokee Indian....ty painted wolf.The blogs on both of these respected Scholars do speak volumes.
DSL