The Dutch spoken between 1150 and 1500 is referred to as Middle Dutch. During this period there was no standardization of grammar. Authors generally wrote in their own dialects. Very often it is possible to tell from the language whether a text comes from Limburg, Brabant, or Holland. There was a lot of variation in the spelling. Words were often written as they were pronounced: "lant" (land), "hi vint" (he finds). The sound determined the spelling, irrespective of the basic word. This is no longer the case with modern Dutch, where "land" is still pronounced but spelled to conform with the plural "landen", and "hij vindt" (he finds) (still [vint) has both "d" of the infinitive ("vinden") and the 3rd person singular ending "t".