Editing Mercian dialect (section)

===Vocabulary===
Mercian vocabulary is largely inherited from [[Proto-Germanic]], with [[Latin]] loanwords coming via the use of Latin as the language of the [[Chalcedonian Christianity|Early Church]], and Norse loanwords that arrived as part of the Norse incursions and foundation of the [[Danelaw]] which covered much of the midlands and north of [[England]].

Some morphological differences between the Mercian and [[West Saxon dialect|West Saxon]] include:

* Change of West Saxon final {{lang|ang|-c}} to {{lang|ang|-h}}, presumably alluding to its ultimate loss in Modern English.
: {{lang|ang|Ic}} ({{lang|en|I}}) ↔ {{lang|ang|Ih}}
* The preservation of {{lang|gem|-k}} in Proto-Germanic in some pronouns, like {{lang|ang|mec}} ({{lang|en|me}}).