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some of almost two thousand English words first attested in Chaucer. Widespread knowledge of Chaucer's works is attested by the many poets who imitated...78 KB (9,467 words) - 07:11, 13 April 2024- Look up Category:English terms derived from Arabic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The following English words have been acquired either directly...99 KB (12,190 words) - 08:55, 21 April 2024
Geoffrey Chaucer, whose Canterbury Tales remains the most studied and read work of the period. The transition from Late Old English to Early Middle English occurred...61 KB (5,406 words) - 12:00, 13 April 2024- List of English Words Invented by Shakespeare)structures. For a list of words relating to Shakespeare's vocabulary, see the English terms first attested in Shakespeare category of words in Wiktionary, the free...26 KB (2,924 words) - 14:23, 14 April 2024
- Cunt (category Articles containing explicitly cited English-language text)Greer said in 2006 that "'cunt' is one of the few remaining words in the English language with a genuine power to shock." Cunt has been attested in its anatomical...78 KB (8,916 words) - 12:29, 10 April 2024
Yeoman (category Agriculture in England)Chaucer's description of a forester is based upon his experiences as a deputy forester of North Petherton Park in Somersetshire.: xl The very first line...114 KB (12,113 words) - 01:24, 30 March 2024
Pity (category Articles containing Middle English (1100-1500)-language text)writers did not yet have words such as "sympathy" and "empathy"; and even the word "compassion" is not attested in English until the 14th century.: 72 ...17 KB (2,085 words) - 21:42, 10 March 2024
Elf (category Use British English from September 2017)Eprints.whiterose.ac.uk. Hall, Alaric (2006). "Elves on the Brain: Chaucer, Old English and Elvish" (PDF). Anglia: Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie....89 KB (10,481 words) - 01:50, 2 March 2024
the Chancery Standard (late Middle English), a London-based form of English, became widespread. Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400), author of The Canterbury...144 KB (17,662 words) - 14:20, 14 April 2024
Confessio Amantis (category Middle English poems)works of Chaucer, Langland, and the Pearl poet as one of the great works of late 14th-century English literature. The Index of Middle English Verse shows...28 KB (3,749 words) - 17:22, 20 December 2023- List of Latin phrases (full) (category Articles containing explicitly cited English-language text)"Divus Claudius". thelatinlibrary.com. Larry D. Benson, ed. The Riverside Chaucer. 3rd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. p. 939, n. 3164. Martínez, Javier...2 KB (3,520 words) - 06:47, 7 April 2024
- List of letters in the english language)Vowel Shift". chaucer.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 13 December 2022. Note how it says short vowels are similar between Middle and Modern English. Lunt, Horace...64 KB (7,023 words) - 16:59, 22 April 2024
- Franglais (category Macaronic forms of English)referred first to the overuse of English words by French speakers and later to diglossia or the macaronic mixture of French (français) and English (anglais)...32 KB (3,936 words) - 03:47, 24 April 2024
Anglo-Norman language (category Languages attested from the 11th century)Geoffrey Chaucer', Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 16, 45–67. Rothwell, William (1996a), 'Adding insult to injury: the English who curse in borrowed French'...65 KB (8,282 words) - 13:58, 14 April 2024
Pamphilus de amore (category Articles containing Middle English (1100-1500)-language text)Translation", The Chaucer Review, 2 (1967), pp. 108–134, English translation Vincente Cristóbal, "Ovid in Medieval Spain", in Ovid in the Middle Ages,...5 KB (608 words) - 12:35, 8 April 2024
Hapax legomenon (category Words)10% to 15% are dis legomena. Thus, in the Brown Corpus of American English, about half of the 50,000 distinct words are hapax legomena within that corpus...32 KB (3,545 words) - 23:40, 2 April 2024
- Introduction to Minor PoemsGeoffrey Chaucer THE MINOR POEMS. § 1. It has been usual, in editions of Chaucer's Works, to mingle with those which he
- travels around holy sites in Europe and Asia, written in the third person, is sometimes called the first autobiography in the English language. She was a contemporary