... +ear+ and the language of the +eye+; between the language of the +mouth+ and the language of the +dictionary+; between the +moving+ vocabulary of the market and the street, and the +fixed+ vocabulary ... letters of the Greek alphabet, which are called alpha, beta There are languages that have never been put upon paper at all, such as many of the African languages, many in the South Sea Islands, and ... 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 Church and of...