Παραδείγματα από το σώμα κειμένου για Middle English
1. Len Cook, the Registrar General, has decreed that marriage registers and certificates will no longer refer to newly–married couples in the late Middle English terminology.
2. If we did base spelling on pronunciation, everybody would spell it as they pronounce it, reverting to the variability of Middle English some 600 years ago.
3. That reference is to phrase from Chaucer: "The names of the steeres ben writen in the Margyn of the riet," which could have modern–day political implications for those of us fluent in Middle English.
4. The new dictionary lists the present version as lush, but it almost certainly became as obsolete as Chaucerian Middle English even before the dictionary was on the printing press.