Friar Hubert's Lisp

Author / Editor
Kendrick, Laura.

Title
Friar Hubert's Lisp

Published
Bulletin des Anglicistes Medievistes 50 (1996): 37-57.

Description
Friar Hubert practices false-seeming by faking a Francophone lisp, replacing dentals with sibilants in order to increase his social prestige and his seductiveness. Kendrick also explores why Parision French was considered "sweet".

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