this city's gonna break your heart (What people think Old English is: Thou art indeed...)

12 months ago (16,348 notes)

#THAT'S NOT EVEN MIDDLE ENGLISH YOU FUCKERS
#THAT'S MODERN ENGLISH
#oh my god so i was just now trying to remember the beginning of the canterbury tales cause we had to memorize it in high school (in middl...
#(in middle english)
#and for a few minutes there all i could come up with was
#'twas brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe'
#which is really really vehemently NOT the beginning of the canterbury tales

What people think Old English is:	Thou art indeed a fine lad, prithee yonder! Wherefore arest mine pantalones?
What it actually is:	Syððan ǽrest wearð feasceaft funden, hé þæs frófre gebád, wéox under wolcnum weorðmyndum þáh, oð þæt him ǽghwylc ymbsittendra ofer hron-ráde hýran scolde, gomban gyldan. Þæt wæs gód cyning!

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