Caroline Kisko, Kennel Club secretary, said: "The
old English sheepdog is one of our most iconic dog breeds, but you rarely see one now in our streets and parks, so the historic lows we're seeing are particularly worrying.
The
Old English ancestor of sythen, sieean, is regularly used in
Old English verse, and so Weiskott, I think correctly, takes this regularity as an indication of the
Old English origin of late Middle English alliterative poetry (117).
From the
Old English Bruna-burgh, or Bruna's river-bank.
A grab bag of theoretical approaches is incorporated into this study which are enumerated in a programmatic statement: "the analyses below employ data from experimental linguistics in combination with Oral Theory, historical inquiry, the Jakobsonian theory of linguistic functions, theories of
Old English metre, translation theory, Bakhtinian genre theory, modern rhetorical theories, and even film theory" (29).
Allied
Old English said that the brand is a synergistic fit within the specialty food company owned by the Fred Ross family.
Chihuahua registrations grew by 215 per cent from 2009 to 2013 while
Old English Sheepdog registrations fell by 27 per cent.
Traditional favourites like the iconic
Old English Sheepdog of the Dulux ads and the English setter are being pushed aside by rising numbers of mini-breeds like Chihuahuas, so loved by celebrities.
Second division action saw Roby College move four points clear at the top of the table courtesy of a tight 2-1 away win over Kingsford while Hope Park continued their climb up the table after securing a Boys division as Quarry Bank went level on points with
Old English, who beat Waterloo GSOB 7-1, stunning 4-1 win over Old Xaverians.
The
Old English Boethius: With Verse Prologues and Epilogues Associated with King Alfred.
Both Klaeber (2008: 153) and Tolkien (1936: 290, 291) liken this
Old English (OE) proverb to the proverb "Fortune favors the brave." Drawing the same parallel, Deskis (1996: 73), however, suggests that "[t]he Beowulfian version is somewhat complicated by the added condition that the eorl be unfaege".
Among the topics are the vernacular practice of naming the liturgical year, comparing the versions of the
Old English Gospels in a semantic and syntactic study of periphrastic "model verb + infinitive" construction, metrical influences on constructions with complex predicates in
Old English hypermetric verse, the pronoun it and the dating of Middle English texts, and changes in the clausal complement of the copulative perception verbs in American English.