A Possible Pun on Chaucer's Name

Author / Editor
Clark, Roy Peter.

Title
A Possible Pun on Chaucer's Name

Published
Names 25 (1977): 49-50.

Description
The word "soutere" (shoemaker) in CT 1.3904 may possibly be a pun on "Chaucer" (Fr. "chaussier", shoemaker).

Chaucer Subjects
Reeve and His Tale.
Language and Word Studies.