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But when they are together, and especially if they constitute a large community, they splice the contents of their languages into new and often unpredictable patterns; this happened in England when Old English and Norman French came together after 1066, giving rise to the Middle English hybrid that was in due course used to such effect by Chaucer and Malory.
Ha-ha, he-he , or hee-hee may be the closest spelled-out equivalents, with te-hee as a feminine version, dating back to the laugh that Chaucer assigned the reeve's wife in the Miller's Tale.
Just think how many words must have been coined by writers whose works are the only ones extant from early periods of the language: people who misuse citation dictionaries must think that Richard Rolle of Hampole, Holinshed, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and a handful of other geniuses sat down one day and invented the English language, making up the words as they went along.
In Northamptonshire, Jeremy Seabrook reported in The Unprivileged that his mother would use terms that appear in Chaucer but have long vanished from Received English.
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