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A thousand years is quite difficult to imagine and tends
to seem like a very long time. If we think of a new
generation being born every 25 years, then two generations
are 50 years apart - perhaps like you and one of your
grandparents. Now if you picture a grandparent,
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then
his or her grandparent, |
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then
his or her grandparent, |
then his
or her grandparent and so on, you would need a line
of only 20 grandparents - or a queue at the Post
Office - to take you right back to the days of Old English.
It is not really so long ago.
For Middle
English, it could be just 12 grandparents away…
Now
look at the exercises on the next page.
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