Re:expressions I hate (Score 1)

That ne bith swa. Oft ic mid fela othres be thaem ealdre engliscgereorde sprece.

Come on, someone correct my grammar... ;)

Well, I'm not terribly fluent in OE, but...I think there's something wrong in your indirect object (dative case) there. So correct me if I'm wrong for my part...

thaem is a demonstrative pronoun, functioning here as an article ("the"), and was used for masculine, neuter, and plural nouns (i.e. any non-feminine-singular noun).

The e at the end of engliscgereorde doesn't tell me particularly much, since any singular noun, regardless of gender, in the dative case has the -e inflection.

But the adjective ealdre ("old", I believe) also has the -re inflection, which in dative case is only applied to strong adjectives modifying feminine nouns. For masculine or neuter strong, it should be -um. But I think this would actually be a weak adjective, which takes -an.

So I think you meant to say "thaem ealdan engliscgereorde".

But I could be wrong.

(Using "A Biography of the English Language" 2nd ed, C.M. Millward as a source)