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  2. Early Modern English - Wikipedia

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    Early Modern English (sometimes abbreviated EModE [1] or EMnE) or Early New English (ENE) is the stage of the English language from the beginning of the Tudor period to the English Interregnum and Restoration, or from the transition from Middle English, in the late 15th century, to the transition to Modern English, in the mid-to-late 17th century.

  3. Category:17th-century English translators - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "17th-century English translators" The following 103 pages are in this category, out of 103 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  4. Modern English - Wikipedia

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    Modern English, sometimes called New English (NE) [2] or present-day English (PDE) as opposed to Middle and Old English, is the form of the English language that has been spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England, which began in the late 14th century and was completed by the 17th century.

  5. John Dryden - Wikipedia

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    His final translations appeared in the volume Fables Ancient and Modern (1700), a series of episodes from Homer, Ovid, and Boccaccio, as well as modernised adaptations from Geoffrey Chaucer interspersed with Dryden's own poems. As a translator, he made great literary works in the older languages available to readers of English. [citation needed]

  6. English translations of Homer - Wikipedia

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    Translators and scholars have translated the main works attributed to Homer, the Iliad and Odyssey, from the Homeric Greek into English, since the 16th and 17th centuries. Translations are ordered chronologically by date of first publication, with first lines provided to illustrate the style of the translation.

  7. List of English Bible translations - Wikipedia

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    An American Translation: Modern English 1935 Masoretic Text, various Greek texts. Beck's American Translation: Modern English 1976 Masoretic Text, various Greek texts. Lutheran: Berean Standard Bible: BSB Modern English 2022 Masoretic Text, various Greek texts. Published by the Bible Hub website. Released in the Public Domain. Majority Standard ...

  8. History of the Lord's Prayer in English - Wikipedia

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    The text of the Matthean Lord's Prayer in the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible ultimately derives from first Old English translations. Not considering the doxology, only five words of the KJV are later borrowings directly from the Latin Vulgate (these being debts, debtors, temptation, deliver, and amen). [1]

  9. Early Modern English Bible translations - Wikipedia

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    Early Modern English Bible translations are those translations of the Bible which were made between about 1500 and 1800, the period of Early Modern English. This was the first major period of Bible translation into the English language including the King James Version and Douai Bibles .