'Astromye' in the Miller's Tale Again

Author / Editor
Ross, Thomas W.

Title
'Astromye' in the Miller's Tale Again

Published
Notes and Queries 226 (1981): 202.

Description
"Astromye" is neither a scribal error nor an acceptable variant for "astronomye" but a malapropism that probably appeared originally as "arstromye," containing a pun in the first syllable.

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale.