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  • "It is nowe x yeres, since I (seeing the confuse order of our late englishe Chronicles, and the ignorant handling of aunciet affaires) leaning myne own peculiar gains, coscerated my selfe to the searche of our famous antiquities."

    Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850 Various

  • A bit of latin, greek, french, and olde englishe need spellchecked. this whole etext NEEDS spellchecked too!!

    Literary Blunders Henry Benjamin Wheatley 1877

  • _That he had as good right to coyne as the Queen of Englande, and that he was acquainted with one Poole, a prisoner in newgate, whoe hath great skill in mixture of mettalls, and havinge learned such thinges of him, he ment, thorough help of a cvnnynge stampe-maker, to coyne french crownes, pistolettes, and englishe shillinges.

    The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) Christopher Marlowe 1578

  • [Sidenote: The practise of a certen englishe man to teache hys chyld hys letters by shootyng.]

    The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502

  • Emong the englishe men, it greued not the ryght worshypful

    The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502

  • i have this movie in englishe and they sing the opening in english its so cute!

    Tamagotchi Movie Opening Credits | TECHNOLOGY NEWS 2010

  • Poticaries in Germany do name it Lilium Cōvallium, it may be called in englishe May Lilies. "

    The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

  • "TheLiterary Interests of the First Carters." p. 50.) [2.13] Louis B. Wright thought this entrymight be The liues of the noble grecians and romanes, compared together by that graue learned philosopher and historiographer, plutarke of chaeronea: translated out of greeke into french by iames amyot, abbot of bellozane, bishop of auxerre, one of the kings priuy counsel, and great amner of fraunce, and out of french into englishe, by Thomas North.

    Inventory of Robert Carter's Estate, November [1733] 1733

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  • Thys ist an olde Englishe commente.

    September 15, 2007

  • Whatte?

    September 15, 2007

  • Groovye!

    September 15, 2007

  • Indeede.

    September 17, 2007

  • You can purchase similar words at Ye Olde Wordde Shoppe.

    September 18, 2007

  • Free e with every word purchased!

    September 18, 2007

  • Todaye onlye: buye onee, gette onee freee!

    September 18, 2007

  • Nope, Uselessenesse took it too far, it's over now.

    September 18, 2007

  • Didst I buye all'o thine e's?

    September 18, 2007

  • E? Who needs E? Eye wanyt the Ys.

    September 18, 2007