... varieties of Old English - Late West Saxon (Brunner 19 55, Chatman 19 58, Hockett 19 59, Wagner 19 69), Mercian (Kuhn 19 39, Dresher 19 78, 19 80 ), and general (Kuhn 19 61, 19 70). Except forKuhn, these ... to befound in Old English texts.From this rich foundation of data, such scholars as Luick (19 14-40),Sievers ( 18 98) and Sweet ( 18 88 ) — the first great synthesisers in English historical linguistics ... element from his mother's, possibly at the same timefrom his maternal grandfather's (cf. Woolf 19 39 :10 1, 10 5, 11 8, 13 1-2).Women's names certainly participated in the permutation...