short questions

Question 1

Football

Answer 1

random capitalisation - pre-standardism + idiosyncracy

Question 2

currente

Answer 2

appended ‘e’ - could’ve been to show phonetic spelling + printing press invented in 1440 needed to fill gaps

Question 3

feruente

Answer 3

u/v interchange - EME + result of latin in medieval language

Question 4

regardyng

Answer 4

i/y interchange

Question 5

batle

Answer 5

single double consonant

Question 6

canott

Answer 6

double final consonant

Question 7

thee

Answer 7

archaic pronoun - not obsolete as still used in weddings

Question 8

thine

Answer 8

archaic possessive determiner (vowel)

Question 9

thy

Answer 9

archaic possessive determiner (consonant)

Question 10

knowest

Answer 10

2nd person present tense obsolete verb inflection

Question 11

seemeth

Answer 11

3rd person present tense obsolete verb inflection

Question 12

they play not for money

Answer 12

lack of dummy auxiliary/inverted syntax of the negation

Question 13

know you when when the result shall be announced?

Answer 13

lack of dummy auxiliary/inverted syntax of the interrogative

Question 14

my self

Answer 14

reflexive pronouns that are not compounded

Question 15

seasons competition

Answer 15

lack of possessive apostrophe

Question 16

&

Answer 16

ampersand

Question 17

stages: and

Answer 17

colon preceding a co-ordinating conjunction

Question 18

a Clock

Answer 18

prepositional phrase

Question 19

play’d/ i did play

Answer 19

past tense (omission of e)
(addition of dummy auxiliary)

Question 20

i, play football

Answer 20

colon between a subject and verb

Question 21

quoth he

Answer 21

speech/ quotation marks (no use, instead indicated through quotative)

Question 22

when was dictionary created

Answer 22

1755