[Wikipedia-l] Re: FW: Wikipedia for Old English

Thu Aug 5 19:19:30 UTC 2004

Timwi wrote:

> James R. Johnson wrote:
>
>> Sorry - there have been about 6 million speakers at the height of 
>> usage of Old English.  I guess it's like Latin in being a dead 
>> language, but just as deserving of a Wiki.
>
> I am strongly in favour of a Wikipedia in the language that has the 
> ISO code 'ang' -- but *PLEASE DO NOT* call it "Old English". Call it 
> "Anglo-Saxon". Please. Seriously. That's very important.
>
> If you call it "Old English", people will constantly attempt to write 
> articles in Shakespearean, which is early Modern English.

Even Chaucer is only Middle English.

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