[quote] Now:
“Can you write a sentence in English the way it would look now, one hundred years ago, and five hundred years ago?”
-100y (c.1917): First World War
“Can you write a sentence in English the way it would look now, one hundred years ago, and five hundred years ago?”
-400y (c.1617): Just after the death of William Shakespeare
“Canst thou write a sentence in English, in the wise that it looketh now, and look’d an hundred years past, and yet five hundred years past?”
-500y (c.1517): Mary Tudor was one year old
“Canst thou writ a sentence yn Englissh, yn such wise as yt seemeth nou, and seemed an hundred yeeres gonne, and fiue hundred yeeres gonne?”
-600y (c.1417): A few years before the birth of William Caxton, the first Printer in England.
“Canst thou wryt ane sentence yn Englische yn this wise: that as yt semeth nouwe, and hath semed an hundred yeres ygonne, and fiue hundred yeres ygonne?”
-1000y (c.1017): Cnut is king of England, and marries Emma of Normandy
“Meaht þu writ an cwide þus in Ænglisc; þæt hit beoð nu, ⁊ hit wæs ær an hundred gear, ⁊ hit wæs ær fif hundred gear?”
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