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And that's actually Old English, not Middle English.Stone_Cold wrote: Syððan wæs geworden þæt he ferde þurh þa ceastre and þæt castel: godes rice prediciende and bodiende. and hi twelfe mid. And sume wif þe wæron gehælede of awyrgdum gastum: and untrumnessum: seo magdalenisce maria ofþære seofan deoflu uteodon: and iohanna chuzan wif herodes gerefan: and susanna and manega oðre þe him of hyra spedum þenedon.
The characters continued to be used in Middle English (I think it was when printing caught on that they fell out of use), but the example sentence you gave was Old English.
The use of the thorn and its resemblance to "Y" is what gave rise to the perception that "the" used to be pronounced "ye" (as in "Ye Olde Watering Hole" etc.)
ExactlyI’m not saying that exact sentence’s* Middle English, but there’re similar writings that look much the same.
Which is a very widespread misconception; there are a number of people who believe that Chinese is the "oldest language" because of age of the writing system.JaySee wrote:But you kind of make it seem as if language change can be shown by looking at the way the writing system of a language changes.