It's interesting how things go in circles

I've been worrying about Leah lately. Her use of English isn't very good. Here's a quote from her weblog as evidence.

maggie was my last years cosume a lobster i was the prince from katamari damacy and rachal jsut had a purple dress cause she forgot the teapot hat my mom made in my van. rachal had to leave earley to see a snowboard premier. maggie clames that me and here where the parade it was so cool we couldent go 5 steps with out someone takeing a picture of us it was crazy...

But then I came across a cookbook from the 14th century called "The Forme of Cury" by the Master Cooks of King Richard II of England. As an example, here's a recipe for something called "DOUCE AME".

Take gode Cowe mylke and do it in a pot. take parsel. sawge. ysope. saueray and ooþer gode herbes. hewe hem and do hem in the mylke and seeþ hem. take capouns half yrosted and smyte hem on pecys and do þerto pynes and hony clarified. salt it and colour it with safroun an serue it forth.

While reading this, it dawned on me that Leah's English isn't bad. She's just using very old English. Yes, that's it. Olde English. Leah is smarter than I thought.