How to Pronounce Berwick: A Curious Paradigm of Chaucer's Bishop Bradwardine

Author / Editor
Rowland, Beryl.

Title
How to Pronounce Berwick: A Curious Paradigm of Chaucer's Bishop Bradwardine

Published
Florilegium 11 (1992): 116-23.

Description
While we cannot be sure of Chaucer's pronunciation of "Berwyk" (CT 1.792), one manuscript version of Bradwardine's memory treatise may suggest the loss of medial (w).

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales