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Re: vocabulary nit-picking
Poster: mn13189@WCUVAX1.WCU.EDU
And Y'd lyk to regestre mine suport of the usag of Midel Inglisch
spellyngis. Read my signatour fyl below for my opinioun on the matter.
Ewan Albanach
(If I'm speaking Middle English I can't very well be Eogan Mac Labruinn
then, can I?)
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"Ye knowe ek that in forme of speche is chaunge
Withinne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
That hadden pris, now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thinketh he, and yet thei spake hem so,
And spedde as wel in love as men now do."
--Geoffrey Chaucer (late 14th cent.)
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