Do high school students in the US, Canada, or Britain learn this sort of English?

[nq:1]Dear all, I want to know if high school students in the US, Canada, or Britain learn the following sort of English. If so, is it a obligatory school subject or optional one? Tham cynge licoden peran. I'd appreciate your reply. Ray[/nq]
I have never seen this available even as an option in a British school (which isn't to say it doesn't happen somewhere).
Regards,
Arfur

[nq:1]Dear all, I want to know if high school students in the US, Canada, or Britain learn the following sort of English. If so, is it a obligatory school subject or optional one? Tham cynge licoden peran.[/nq]
Oh, no! Deary me. That's too much to expect, even when you've got a cynge.
No, things are much to Politically Correct these days, and the Normans have had it all round, what with th

[nq:1]Dear all, I want to know if high school students in the US, Canada, or Britain learn the following sort of English. If so, is it a obligatory school subject or optional one? Tham cynge licoden peran. I'd appreciate your reply.[/nq]
"Pam kynge licoden peran" here:
http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk

[nq:1]I want to know if high school students in the US, Canada, or Britain learn the following sort of English. If so, is it a obligatory school subject or optional one? Tham cynge licoden peran.[/nq]
As posted earlier, this appears to be "Early English."

Fifty years ago the high school curriculum in Britain (as indicated by Oxford & Cambridge Joint Board
GCE examinations at Ordin

[nq:2]I want to know if high school students in the ... obligatory school subject or optional one? Tham cynge licoden peran.[/nq]
[nq:1]As posted earlier, this appears to be "Early English." Fifty years ago the high school curriculum in Britain (as indicated by Oxford & Cambridge Joint Board GCE examinations at Ordinary levell) included Chaucer's English (1400 Canterbury Tales preface and one

[nq:2]As posted earlier, this appears to be "Early English." Fifty ... included Chaucer's English (1400 Canterbury Tales preface and one tale).[/nq]
[nq:1]I'm not sure we studied Chaucerian English (language), though. Admittedly I took O-level English (Language and Literature, separately, but Chaucer ... confirm or refute my recollection, so that I won't have to go and rootle around up there l

[nq:2]I'm not sure we studied Chaucerian English (language), though. Admittedly ... to go and rootle around up there looking for them.)[/nq]
[nq:1]Rootle by all means if you care to. I find myself unable to remember the urgent errand that I had ... also examined the original text at some point but never had to get to grips with it in any detail.[/nq]
I am a little younger than my esteemed

[nq:1]Rootle by all means if you care to. I find myself unable to remember the urgent errand that I had ... also examined the original text at some point but never had to get to grips with it in any detail.[/nq]
I know that I didn't study Chaucer (original or translation) for my English Lit O-Level, although my friends who took A-Level English did. For O-Level, we had "Animal Farm" and Hardy's

[nq:2]As posted earlier, this appears to be "Early English." Fifty ... included Chaucer's English (1400 Canterbury Tales preface and one tale).[/nq]
[nq:1]I'm not sure we studied Chaucerian English (language), though. Admittedly I took O-level English (Language and Literature, separately, but Chaucer ... in translation. I'm fairly sure I didn't read Chaucer in the original until undergraduate

[nq:2]I'm not sure we studied Chaucerian English (language), though. Admittedly ... but Chaucer counted as Literature) a mere 47 years ago,[/nq]
[nq:1]I can remember "doing" Chaucer for O level in the original in the early 60s.[/nq]
Or it may have been A level. Damned if I can be sure.
John Dean
Oxford