Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1908 — Changes In English. [ARTICLE]

Changes In English.

A striking means of measuring the great changes that have from time to time taken place in the English language Is to study the Lord’s Prayer as It has been written In different centuries: 1150.—Fader ur heune, baleweide beith thl neune, cumin thi kunerlche, thl wille beoth idon In heune and in erthe. 1300.—Fader ure in heavene, halewyn be thi name, thl kingdom come, thi wille be done as In hevene and in erthe. 1370.—Oure fadlr that art in heune, hallowid be thi name, thi kingdom come, be thl wille done in erthe as in heune. 1524.—0ure father which arte in heven. hallowed be thy name. Let thy kingdom come, thy wyoll be fulfilled as well in earth as it Is In heven. “Dally bread” appears in three versions severally as “da we brlend,” “days bred.” ’’dayly brede” and “superstantial bread.”