grete

• “Ermonye the grete, that is to seyne, fro the southe to the northe: and fro the est to the west, it durethe fro the grete desertes of”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “For the reme of Sirye durethe fro the desertes of Arabye, unto Cecyle, and that is Ermonye the grete, that is to seyne, fro the southe to the northe: and fro the est to the west, it durethe fro the grete desertes of Arabye onto the West See.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I

• “Which thynge the Welchman herying ran out of heven a grete pace.”

  The Guardian: How to cook perfect welsh rarebit

• “Butt! there waz resepshen – sumwun tu mete an grete meh.”

  And exactly where were you last night? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?

• “I therefore spent the five hours between getting up and guests arriving accomplishing a lot, including making three salads, baking a cake, mowing the lawn, planting broccolis, brussel sprouts and the loosestrife I got from grete.”

  Happy 17th May plus a lot of preparations, party and whatnot.

• “Nawt wuns tudai did ai heer ennywun grete me az Yur laidyship oar enny suxh fing. we be seeryuslee slipping awn owr manurz.”

  Holy Water in the water bowl… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?

• “Great Regulars: The alliterative form is remarkably flexible across a range of tones and subjects, but my favourite passages have always been the evocations of bleak northern weather and terrain that permeate the poem: "The werbelande wynde wapped fro the hyghe/And drof uch dale ful of dryftes ful grete" adapted by Simon Armitage as "then a whip-cracking wind comes whistling between hills/Driving snow into deepening drifts in the dales".”

  Great Regulars: The alliterative form is remarkably flexible

• “Like the grete Sokates, but not rf not grete I, the Poisoin, mcuh Deservd, movs up throu my Torso and Deadeens my Limbs and Turns my Fingrs — Surgeons fingers — to Unfeellling Sticks and”

  The Terror

• “Caunterbury (thilke that sownen into synne), the book of the Leoun, and many another book, if they were in my remembrance; and many a song and many a leccherous lay, that Crist for his grete mercy foryeve me the synne.”

  The Canterbury Tales

• “Make what use yowe pleas of thiss informasion: and belieue me to haue no other motife, than to serue yowe, becavs of yowre vartues, whiche make yowe deserue a better retorne, I am, thof I shall not set my trewe name, yowre grete admirer and seruant,”

  Pamela

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