... the happiest time for the English language was the time between 1200 and 1500. “For a glorious 300 years,” says David Crystal “people could write as they wanted to and nobody could say they were wrong.” Besides, they also could speak in their regional accents and no one would laugh at their pronunciation for that. At that time there were no usage fuss-arounds, no language police to hold up ‘No Entry’ signs or to book you in for faulting on grammar.
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