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Macro: Old English to New english
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Of course Elizabethan English is considered Modern English. Old English is what Beowulf was written in. Even Chaucer (
Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote the droghte of March hath perced to the roote
) is not Old English but Middle English.
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