| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, October 6, 2001, 0:04 |
Padraic Brown wrote:>> Hmm. It's always been my understanding that the various survivingmonuments>> of _literary Old English_ are written in various dialects, none of whichcan>> be called the direct ancestor of ModE. > >Indeed. Whose Modern English is "Modern English"?Vasiliy's post has shown me the error of my ways. Apologies for a too-sweeping generalization.