Timeline for Problems with the adoption of the Latin script in English?
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| Nov 30, 2019 at 16:04 | comment | added | Denis Nardin | @Quidam Would a picture of the original manuscript of Beowulf qualify? | |
| Nov 15, 2019 at 22:49 | comment | added | Quidam | I'm not sure that Latin script was used to write English "English was written in the Latin alphabet even in the old English period = I would need sources, as it seemed very difficult to adapt old English and Latin. We often read than Irish monks brought the script, but it was for Latin texts. | |
| Nov 14, 2019 at 20:45 | comment | added | brass tacks | I think the use of dots to mark palatal consonants is not an Old English orthographic practice. Daniel Paul O'Donnell says that the distinction between palatal ċ, ġ and velar c, g is "a modern convention not found in the manuscripts" ("The Pronunciation of Old English"). | |
| Nov 14, 2019 at 20:22 | comment | added | vectory | "the populace" couldn't read Latin script, or at all, as far as I know, which has implications for the kind of ""struggle"" (BTW, I don't know who you are quoting) one would look for. Although, you wrote "Literacy was a consequence of conversion", which is perhaps the biggest surprise in this answer. A bit of doubt remains. | |
| Nov 14, 2019 at 17:22 | history | answered | user6726 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
