On 9/19/05, Jack & Naree <jack.macdaddy(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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fact displaying it in a dialect of English - we've
got Wikipedia in
Scots, Wikipedia in Middle English, but when you click on Wikipedia
English, you get spelling errors, sloppy grammar and garbled syntax;
in short the American dialect of English, trying to hijack the term
English.
Just wanted to point out that there is not, as yet, any Middle English
wikipedia.
Middle English does have an ISO 639 language code, enm. But I
wouldn't even want to think about how a wikipedia would work, given
the number of variant spellings -- Anglo-Saxon was at least usually
spelled consistently within a dialect, but the confusion introduced by
the Norman Conquest left Middle English writers seemingly making up
spellings as they went along.
Steve