... happened to adjectives, verbs, and other parts of language. The causes of this arenot far to seek. Spoken language can never be so accurate as written language; the mass of the English andDanes never ... vocabulary of the language isconcerned, the Latin contribution is by far the most important element in our language. Latin was the language of the Romans; and the Romans at one time were masters ... temporal with their Norman brethren. Norman-French became the language of the Court and the nobility, the language of Parliament and the law courts, of the universities and the schools, of the...