Knowe

Then follows a pathetic picture of one such widow, trembling and fainting for hunger, obliged, on her way to the well for a can of water, her only drink, to sit down on a 'knowe' and say a prayer. ❋ Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 (1870)

Behold Cymon, view Themistocles, and a thousand others, how they have differed, and fallen to better from themselves, and deceive the expectation of such as knowe them. ❋ Various (1562)

"Who so list to hount," he wrote, "I knowe where is an hynde . . ." ❋ Unknown (2011)

I doubt you even knowe what MBTI is, so shut your pie hole! ❋ Unknown (2010)

Honestly, I really do knowe howe to spell “crowd.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

(1′) I knowe that sorte of men ryght well [attested 1560] ❋ Unknown (2008)

"And well we knowe that these creatures are closer to the Beaste in nature than to Noble Manne-" ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

Everyone i knowe was talking about how stupid it looked. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I knowe I should stretch afterwards, but it Bores me so I do it not. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

Not long ago I suggested we need a new word - knowe - for people we have met electronically, but never face-to-face. ❋ Brian Clegg (2009)

It could be to knowe someone (the 'e' at the end for electronic) or to kmow someone ('m' for media) - or something else much better someone else can think of. ❋ Brian Clegg (2009)

Quayle + Sorry, Bill, I knowe you were looking forworde to the contest. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Ai thot Ai mite hav bin oaver-reaktyng, becuz iyt bovvured me soe muches; iyt maikes me feal soe muches beddure tuu knowe taht sumebuddee eylse felt teh saimest waiy….. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Could it be that you knowe your asses will be kicked in 06? ❋ Unknown (2005)

No mention of whether the public as opposed to political anoraks will even knowe the conference is on, let alone attend. ❋ Serf (2006)

The minister spoke from a knowe close to the edge of the ring, and poured out the words God gave him on the very threshold of the devils of yore. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Arrguh. whoops, let me rephrase that … Arr, tis not what ye THINK ye believe, tis whot ye knowe! ❋ Unknown (2005)

If you're wondering, the title is from Chaucer, specifically a remarkable passage in Book 2 of Troilus and Criseyde that could serve as an epigraph for any book on historical linguistics: Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge ❋ Unknown (2005)