Month names collection / metastudy

[eggyk]

I asked Gemini about Flemish and how different it was from medieval Dutch (which I already try to include in my tests), the below is what Gemini said. Does this look reasonable? Personally, I'm mostly interested in language statistics and spelling conventions.

Medieval Flemish was written in the Latin alphabet using Gothic scripts, but because there were no standardized spelling rules, writers spelled words phonetically. The same word could be spelled three different ways on the same page.

In my opinion, this is by far the most relevant variable regarding medieval flemish/dutch convention. Compared to the french, which is surprisingly consistent in its spelling, the dutch is all over the place. For july, you can have hoymaent, hooymaent, hoymaant, hooymaendt, hoymaant, hoymaend etc etc, too many to list. I would imagine that two people writing the same work in the same spoken dialect may give you different statistical results. It becomes frustratingly clear in correspondance books like You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. 

As for the difference between flemish and dutch, I think it was likely much the same back then as it is today, a gradual continuum of dialectal differences spanning from france to NW germany. Many may have also spoken their local dialect too (or their local low saxon language/dialect), influencing their choice of spelling in varying amounts per person.