Hey Mike!

 MP> I believe it actually does help, if you pronounce the words
 MP> phonetically as you speak them.

I was just looking at some examples online and what you say can and does work
for the Chaucer examples I saw.  However for some of the earlier examples of
Middle English my success rate was far worse since the examples hadn't evolved
much from Old English.  Looking at the Modern English translations later tald
the tale.

It's been ages since I've read any Chaucer.

Life is good,
Maurice

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