Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

            In the story I found it interesting on how people don’t realize how they can go from one point of language (time period, Old English) back to present/middle English. Listening to how people speak today you can find not only the similarities by the same usage in word/sentence formation. On p. 39, it stated that the word stan actually means ‘the stone’. Now days, we say ‘the stone’ instead of ‘stone’ when talking of a specific item. In the Old English only one word is needed when talking of an item. I know in certain dialects, depending on what a person’s L1 (first language) is, one word is used when a person describes an object. In this sense history can repeat itself to a point based on what dialect of English is used.