'Enough' and 'Enow' in Middle English
- Author / Editor
- Peitsara, Kristi.
'Enough' and 'Enow' in Middle English
- Published
- Terttu Nevalainen and Leena Kahlas-Tarkka, eds. To Explain the Present: Studies in the Changing English Language in Honour of Matti Rissanen (Helsinki: Sociłtł Nłophilologique, 1997), pp. 163-83.
- Description
- Assesses the distribution of the two forms "enough" and "enow," using Chaucer's works in the database. In Chaucer, "enow" is generally a "poetic non-plural variant" useful for rhyme, while "inowe"/"ynowe" is the plural (with exceptions). Explores the historical conflation of the forms.
- Alternative Title
- To Explain the Present: Studies in the Changing English Language in Honour of Matti Rissanen.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.