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The Middle English Period (sep 4, 1100 – jan 1, 1500)

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The Middle English period are two points in time when ongoing language changes became particularly noticeable: grammatical changes about 1100 and pronunciation changes about
1500. The term middle indicates that the period was a transition between Old English (which was grammatically very different from the language that followed) and early Modern English

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sep 4, 1100
jan 1, 1500
~ 399 years

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