@freemo

Wow.... 😜 I wouldn't have that depth of knowledge about it. But it is interesting.

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@design_RG

An easy way to tell... If you can still read it and it sounds mostly english like it isnt middle or old english... old english is pretty much unreadable to a modern reader and even middle english is going to be hard to decipher for most.

Here is a bit of Middle english (For Gawaine & The Green Knight a classic):

Hit watz Ennias þe athel, and his highe kynde,
þat siþen depreced prouinces, and patrounes bicome
Welne3e of al þe wele in þe west iles.

Here is a bit of Old English (from Orosirus):

Ær þæm þe Romeburg getimbred wære iiii hunde wintrum 7 hundeahtatigum, Uesoges, Egypta cyning, wæs winnende of suðdæle Asiam, oð him se mæsta dæl wearð underþieded.

For comparison here is Early Modern English (A love letter by Dorothy Osborne):

I came down hither not half so well pleased as I went up, with an engagement upon me that I had little hope of ever shaking off, for I had made use of all the liberty my friends would allow me to preserve my own, and 'twould not do; he was so weary of his, that he would part with't upon any terms. As my last refuge I got my brother to go down with him to see his house, who, when he came back, made the relation I wished.

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