later translated into the standard Late West Saxon literary language when they were copied by scribes. In the Wessex Gospels from around 990, the text of Matthew 6 (), the Lord's Prayer, is as follows: Fæder ure þu þe eart on heofonum, si þin nama gehalgod. To becume þin rice, gewurþe ðin willa, on eorðan swa swa on heofonum. Urne gedæghwamlican hlaf syle us todæg, and forgyf us ure gyltas, swa swa we forgyfað urum gyltendum. And ne gelæd þu us on costnunge, ac alys us of yfele. Soþlice. List of texts: Ælfric of Eynsham's Lives of the Saints Later developments The "Winchester standard" gradually fell out of use after the Norman Conquest in 1066. Monasteries did not keep the standard going because English bishops were soon replaced by Norman bishops who brought their own Latin textbooks and scribal conventions, and there was less need to copy or write in Old English. Latin soon became the dominant language of scholarship and legal documents, with Anglo-Norman as the language of the aristocracy, and any standard written English became a distant memory by the mid-twelfth century as the last scribes trained as boys before the conquest in West Saxon, died as old men. The new standard languages that would come into being in the times of Middle English and Modern English were descended from the East Midlands dialect, which was Anglian, and not from West Saxon. Low Late West Saxon is the distant ancestor of the West Country dialects. See also Wiktionary's coverage of Early West Saxon terms Wiktionary's coverage of Late West Saxon terms References Languages attested from the 9th century Languages extinct in the 12th century Old English dialects Standard languages Wessex