Mutual Comprehensibility of Middle West Low Germanic

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/3/00 5:37:12 PM Mountain Standard Time,
dlwhite at texas.net writes:

<<  It is my vague impression that Middle English, esp. Kentish, which
 is very conservative, would have been mutually comprehensible with Middle
 Dutch.  Any opinions? >>

-- with Frisian perhaps, but I wouldn't have thought with Netherlandish, at
that date. (14th century?).