Chaucer?
Away with you - you will note that there are considerable changes in modern spelling from Shakespear's time and ours. Chaucer wrote in what is a foreign language these days.
Given when he kept his diaries and that England had been under Norman feudalism for some considerable time, would it be reasonable to assume the dipthong as a literal translation from the French?.
Anyway - back to the subject : Were my nephew, a pleasant enough 21 year old at Uni be daft enough to get pissed at a party dressed in a Nazi uniform, and his face splashed over the press be allowed to join the Mil?.
I doubt it would be put down to 'Youthful high spirits' but a total lack of understanding of any history and the evils commited by that uniform. And surely would be duly punished in court.
Depends who your Granny is I suppose, in the Blighty democracy.