What do the following words have in common? What has happened to them in Modern English? wilt, hast, thine, art You all fail! Any fool can tell that the words are old . Of course they are old in an exam based on Old English! What do the

Thank you for the kind proposal. If you have the titles of those books, could you kindly put them in the thread of the history of English language in Linguistics Discussion Forum? I'm interested especially in the language change happened

I got this kind of knowledge through OED and a cheap book written by late Toshio Nakao who was a lecturer on history of English in some university (University of Glasgow?) in Great Britain. paco