From looking at the text from The Journal of George Fox I discovered that it was written in the period of Early Modern English. The first language constituent I have decided to talk about is Orthography.
The Orthography of Early Modern English is quite similar to what it is today however there are a few differences such as the spelling in Early Modern English a lot of it was unphonetic unstable. An example of an unphonetic word used in the text would be 'Bloode' and 'bleade' these examples contain a silent ‘e’; these were often placed at the ends of words. In the second person ‘ye’ is used regularly this is now replaced by the word; you/your/yours.
With England gaining more contacts from around the world, this meant new words were beginning to enter the English Language along with the intervention of printing meaning English as a language would become more standardised and common language in print, as printing became more popular books became cheaper giving more people an chance to learn how to read. As the language became standardised spelling and grammar became fixed. With most of the publishing houses being in London, the dialect from London became the standard.
The main difference between EME and LME is vocabulary, in English today we have many more words this is through many factors such as, immigrants, technology, wars ect, because of these factors English today includes loan words from countries like France, Italy and Spain with words such as; France – ticket, duel and volunteer. Spain – armada. All of the factors above expand the English language making it even more different form Early Modern English.
You have described some of the features of phonology effectively. However, you become much less precise when you talk generally about lexis. You need to keep your evaluation rooted to the exam text.
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