... Leeds) Anthony Warner (University of York) An Introduction to English Syntax Jim Miller An Introduction to English Phonology April McMahon An Introduction to English ... Page AN INTRODUCTION TO OLD ENGLISH especially in East Anglia Soon after they spread westwards and northwards, and by the seventh century the English (as they called themselves = Old English angelcynn) ... the two Old English words wı f ‘woman’ and man ‘person’ (there was once ¯ also another, corresponding, compound carl ‘man’ plus man) In Old English equally, all the above nouns belonged to this...