Request for variant subtag fr 16th-c 17th-c

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Thu Dec 14 21:58:48 CET 2006


CE Whitehead scripsit:

> I am hoping also that these new tags prompt people to discuss tagging 
> Elizabethan English which is different that modern English but which you 
> would never tag as enm.

It goes back before Elizabeth's reign, and afterwards too: the usual label
is Early Modern English.

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