Dear Ferret Folks-
 
Regarding my post yesterday, I got an e-mail asking if the King James
version of the Bible and Shakespeare were really written in classicly
defined old English.  Noooo.
 
I used then as examples of literature that used ye/thou that many people
are familiar with.  Genuine old English dates from around 500 to 1100 AD,
and looks like gibberish to me.  It is followed by middle English, and
the very dawn of modern English is represented by Shakespeare and the
King James version of the Bible.  If you want to see what old English
looks like, try this page.  It gives the day and date in both old and
modern English daily.  *That's* the stuff that had a "yall".  We lost
it, like a thousand years ago.
 
<http://epsilon3.georgetown.edu/%7Eballc/cgi-bin/todaeg.cgi>
 
Alexandra in MA
[Posted in FML issue 5044]