[Sca-cooks] Writing Middle English - & time frame - an aside from"period cookbook"

[Terry Decker]

> When our Companie interact with the visitors to our Camps, we only resume 
> modern speech to them,  if our Visitors "look blank" when we speak Early 
> Middle English  [which is correct for "our period", 1450 to 1509]. Even 
> our youngest Companions pick-up the 15th C. speech-habits very quickly.
>

Early Middle English?  Shouldn't that be Late Middle English, as Middle 
English was in prevalent use between 1100 and 1500, then transitioned into 
New English?

> I can also make a fairly good attempt at late-mediaeval French [French was 
> the late-Mediaeval Langtuage of Diplomacy as well as being the 2nd "Lingua 
> Franca" for the "educated Classes", after Latin.], - which goes-down very 
> well with our French Visitors.
> For our German and Japanese visitors, I use their own modern languages.
>
>
> Yours in service,
> Julian Wilson,

Do you use Old French or Jersey French?

Bear