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

[Michael Everson]

At 19:22 -0500 2006-12-14, CE Whitehead wrote:

>http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/queene1.html#Canto%20I.
>
>O.k. this is the case with 16th century French too.  Every educated 
>French speaker can read it; it is just the spelling that is 
>different.
>
>16th century French is thus something like 16th century English time-wise.

Fine. Just letting you know.. there is no need to have Early Modern 
English spell-checkers or search engines.

>You only tag Middle English because it is the dialect spoken by 
>Chaucer, or by the author of the Sir Gawaine poems (two different 
>dialects).  It's not our dialect I do not think.

Nonesense. I read Middle English. Chaucer's dialect is easy. Plenty 
of other dialects are not. They are still Middle English.

Scots is something else.
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Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com