Alternative English

General information
Alternative English (Oðer English) is a Germanic tongue descended from Old English in a world where the Norman conquest of 1066 failed and where there was therefore a much reduced influence of French upon the language. This manifests itself in a greater Germanic portion of the wordstock, the preservation of a second person singular and a more (though still not entirely) regular orthography, amongst others. Moreover greater verbal inflection is found, along with a more conservative article system that is more akin to Modern German's.

Alphabet
Alternative English is written like its real-world counterpart in the Roman Alphabet, although there are several variations. ​Letter combinations 
 * - e is pronounced  [ ə] when it is word-final and often in unstressed syllables.

Nouns
The first main point of importance where nouns are concerned in AE is that there is retention in some part of the old grammatical cases: nominative, accusative, dative and genitive.

In Alternative English, the arbitary gender system present in Old English has collapsed to a lesser degree than with real-world English. Instead, a two-case Scandinavian model exists, whereby all nouns have either common (into which the old masculine and feminine nouns are grouped) and neuter gender.

Typical noun paradigm - 'cæt' A German-like system of definite articles still exists, detailed below:

Definite article paradigm

Verbs
Verbs are conjugated with somewhat more inflection than modern English verbs. Due to the continued usage of þow, the '-est' ending is not at all archaic, whilst the plural ending of '-en' has equally been retained (as well as marking the infinitive). Notably different also is the fact that the distinction between strong and weak verbs has been kept, so that a distinct set of classes has remained for verbs which share vowel changes throughout their paradigm.