Friar Hubert's Lisp
- Author / Editor
- Kendrick, Laura.
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.