A Wide Range of Variant Forms and Much Scribal Error 

• The word day could be spelt in a variety of ways: dai, day, daye, dæi, deai, dey, dei, dawe

• The word knight could be spelt: knight, knighte, knyght, knyghte, knyht, knyhte, knith, knict, kincth, cniþte, and cniht

• Some words had hundreds of variants

• There is variation even within the work of the same author, especially in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries

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