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Free English Online Dictionary * Grammar * Word Fun. Grammar and Punctuation | The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation. History of English. Ye knowe eeknote also, that in forme of speche is chaungenote pronounced chon-j With-inne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho That hadden prysnote were commonly used, now wondernote wonderfully, in the sense that you wondered at it nycenote meant "unusual" at this point; by William Shakespeare's day would mean "trivial" and straungenote pronounced stron-j Us thinketh hemnote "they seem to us" : "us thinketh" is the plural of "methinks" and "hem" = "them"; and yet they spakenote archaic past tense of "speak" hem so, And speddenote got ahead as wel in love as men now do; Eek for to winne love in sondrynote various (c.f.

British English "sundry") ages, In sondry londesnote lands, sondry been usages.note ages and usages rhyme with mod. TV writers often have an odd idea of what "old-fashioned" English sounds like. Nu scilun herga hefenricæs uard metudæs mehti and his modgithanc . XXIII. Whan that Aprill with his shoures sote The droughte of March hath perced to the roote ). Thee Thine/Mine/etc ◊. OneLook Dictionary Search. Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary and thesaurus.