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    The Ormulum or Orrmulum is a twelfth-century work of biblical exegesis, written by an Augustinian canon named Orrm (or Orrmin) and consisting of just...
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    regarded as the oldest surviving texts in Middle English, now called the Ormulum. The influence of Old Norse aided the development of English from a synthetic...
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  • and courts of law. Early examples of Middle English literature are the Ormulum and Havelock the Dane. In the fourteenth century major works of English...
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    transition from Old to Middle English can be placed during the writing of the Ormulum. The oldest Middle English texts that were written by the Augustinian canon...
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  • 1150s–80s), was an Augustinian canon from south Lincolnshire who wrote the Ormulum, a collection of verse homilies that is the oldest English autograph and...
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    G
    ᫌ : Combining insular g, used in the Ormulum Ꝿ ꝿ : Turned insular g Ꟑ ꟑ : Closed insular g, used in the Ormulum ɢ : Latin letter small capital G, used...
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    U+A7D3 ꟓ LATIN SMALL LETTER DOUBLE THORN was used in the Middle English Ormulum Pronunciation of English ⟨th⟩ Sho (letter), Ϸ, a similar letter in the...
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    T
    voiceless dental fricative [θ] ᫎ : Combining small insular t was used in the Ormulum ʇ : Turned small t is used in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)...
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    R
    Ꞃ ꞃ – Insular r (Gaelic type) ᫍ – Combining Insular r, as used in the Ormulum 𐤓 – Semitic letter Resh, from which the following letters derive: Ρ ρ...
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  • "enclosure" is yard. An early example of this transformation is from the Ormulum: þatt ure Drihhtin wollde / ben borenn i þiss middellærd that our Lord...
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