Timeline for Why did word final S get replaced by "CE" in Middle and Modern English?
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| Jun 13, 2021 at 19:40 | answer | added | Rayan Khan | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 13, 2021 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1404091202165686280 | ||
| Jun 13, 2021 at 12:01 | comment | added | BoldBen | Most of the other entries are convincing but there is a very short temporal overlap between the beginning of rice cultivation in Italy (mid to late 15c according to this website) and the end of the Middle English linguistic period (around 1500). The word 'rys' must have been adopted quickly and with very little experience of the grain for it to have entered Middle English. | |
| Jun 13, 2021 at 5:53 | history | asked | user387044 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |