4. Middle English

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30	Searchable copy of Domesday Book, with names, locations, and maps.
31	Original pronunciation recording of an extract from Mirror of Life.
33	Original pronunciation recording of an extract from the Peterborough Chronicle.
33	Further details of the Peterborough Chronicle.
35	Original pronunciation recording of an extract from John of Trevisa.
35	A transcription of the Paston letters and papers, 1425-89.
35	Original pronunciation recording of an extract from a Paston letter.
36	Original pronunciation recording of an extract from The Owl and the Nightingale.
36	Original pronunciation recording of the text of 'Sumer is icumen in'.
36	'Sumer is icumen in', sung by the Hilliard Ensemble.
36	Original pronunciation recording of an extract from Layamon's Brut.
37	Original pronunciation recording of the opening lines of Gawain and the Green Knight.
38	The text of The Canterbury Tales, with glosses and translation.
38	Original pronunciation recording of the opening lines of The Canterbury Tales.
39	Original pronunciation recording of an extract from Chaucer's Astrolabe.
39	Original pronunciation recording of an extract from Chaucer's ABC.
40	Variant spellings of 'might' and 'night' from the Oxford English Dictionary.
41	Further details about pipe rolls, from the British National Archives.
42	Original pronunciation recording of an extract from the Ormulum.
42	Middle English sounds.
44	A searchable corpus of Middle English manuscripts.
47	An alphabetical list of 750 loanwords from French.
48	Original pronunciation recording of an extract from Wycliffe's Bible.
49	Original pronunciation recording of an extract from The Canterbury Tales.
49	Original pronunciation recording of an extract from Ballad of Our Lady.
50	The Middle English Dialect Project at the University of Edinburgh.
52	Original pronunciation recording of an extract from The Bruce.
53	Original pronunciation recording of an extract from William Dunbar.
53	Original pronunciation recording of an extract from Hume's Orthographie.
55	Changes in the Great Vowel Shift.