New Britain herald., 1923-03-13

gether different grammatical scheme
 "one great group Of languages nov
 covers Europe and stretches out t,
 India; 1t includes English. French
 German. Spanish, Italian, Greek, Rus
 sian, Armenian, Persian and various
 Indian tongues. It Is called the Indo
 European or Aryan family.
 Compare, for example, Englisl father, mother: German water, nut
 ter; Latin. pater, mater; Greek, pater
 meter; French, pere, mere; Ar
 mcnian, air, nair; Sanscrit, piter
 mater. In similar manner tn,
 Arynn languages ring the changes or great number of fundamenta
 words, f in the Germanic language.
 becoming 'p', in Latin and so on They follow n law of variation called Grimm's law. These languages art not different things. they are varia. tions of one thing. The people who use them think in the same way.
 "The English language spoken to- day began from the settlement of the Anglo -Saxons to the Norman con- quest. say from 500 to 1066 A. D., and Is popularly known as Anglo Saxon. though simply the earliest form of English.
 Tt is a highly infected and purely Teutonic tongue, presenting several dialects. The conquest introduced the Norman French. and from 1066 to about 1250. two languages were spoken, the native English speaking their own language, the intruders speaking French.
 During this period the grammat- ical structure of the native language was greatly broken up. infections fell away, or were assimilated to each other: and towards the end of the period we find few works written in language resembling the English of our own day in grammar, but diff fering from 1t by being purely Saxon or Teutonic in vocabulary.
 Finally the two languages began to mingle and form one, ineligible to the whole population, Normans as well as English, this change being marked by a great infusion of Nor man-French words, and English. as now constituted, being the result. English is thus in it's vocabulary a composite language, deriving part of it's stock of words from Teutonic source and part from a Latin source. being in the main merely modified form of Latin.
 Tn it's grammatical structure and general character, however, English Is entirely Teutonic. and is classed with Dutch and Gothic among the Lac. o~v,c~ <nn0Nac wo divide | he history of the English language nto periods. we shall find three most distinctly marked, first the old Eng ish or Anglo-Saxon. extending down | o about HOO, second the middle l English, HOO to 1400; third, modern | English.
 "The chief change which the lan- yuage has experienced during the modern period consists in it's ab- ,orbing new words from all quarters n obedience to the requirements of advancing science, more complicated social relations. and increased subt- ety of thought. At the present time he rapid growth of the sciences al- .eady existing, and the creation of lew ones, have caused whole groups ,f new ones to be introduced, chiefly rom the Greek and Latin.
 And so the English language has progressed from the ancient times to he present, ever changing, and per- laps, who knows, thousand years rom now it will be again changed md revised different from thespoken anguage of today"
 At the close of the meeting An- hony A. Dorbuck, Boys Work Sec etary announced that Raymond Golf f the Senior High school would ad- ress the club next Monday evening fter the supper.