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Excerpt from The Anglo-Norman Dialect: A Manual of Its Phonology and Morphology; With Illustrative Specimens of the Literature I begin with the anglo-norman dialect as being probably the most important for the general student of Old French philology. This importance is derived from the following fact: The first half-dozen texts in our list Offer us Speech characteristics Of an Old French dialect at a time for which manuscripts in the Ile-de - France dialect are unknown. Many phenomena recorded in our early texts become, at a later date, part of the history of the Ile - de-france speech. The study Of the first appearances of such phenomena must, then, be of the greatest importance. My order of treatment for each dialect will be the fol lowing: I. Any necessary general remarks on the given dialect as a whole, its especial significance, its difficulties, or any question of importance raised by students of the dialect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.