{"id":3139,"date":"2010-03-02T05:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2010-03-03T19:51:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T03:51:12","slug":"can-you-read-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/language\/can-you-read-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you read this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-10\/inscription.jpg\" alt=\"early english inscription\" width=\"435\" height=\"335\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This may be the earliest example of written English to survive in a British church. Recently discovered on a wall in Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire, it probably dates from the fourteenth century. But what does it say?<\/p>\n<p>Dr John Crook, who produced the digitally enhanced image of the text shown above, is asking the public for help in deciphering the incomplete inscription. &#8220;If anyone thinks they can identify any further letters from the enhanced photographs,&#8221; he said, &#8220;please contact us via the Salisbury Cathedral website&#8230;. It would be wonderful for us to solve the mystery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more at the <a title=\"daily mail on early english church inscription\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1254777\/Scholars-discover-inscription-believed-earliest-form-English-ask-public-help-deciphering-it.html\">Daily Mail Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may be the earliest example of written English to survive in a British church. Recently discovered on a wall in Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire, it probably dates from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3139"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3143,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions\/3143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}