KENTISH

Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language | 1998 | 269 words | Copyright

KENTISH. A dialect of OLD ENGLISH, known in the 8c only from names in LATIN charters but in the 9c as a language used for the charters themselves. It may have descended from the speech of the JUTES, who are said to have settled in Kent in the 5c. See DIALECT (ENGLAND).

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