Final -e and Spelling Habits in the Fifteenth-Century Versions of the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
- Author / Editor
- Caon, Luisella.
Final -e and Spelling Habits in the Fifteenth-Century Versions of the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
- Published
- ES 83: 296-310, 2002.
- Description
- Examines all fifteenth-century witnesses of WBP, which are available on CD-Rom (SAC 20 [1998], no.11). Some scribes still had a system for the use of final -e, here studied in strong and weak adjectives in early, mid-, and late-fifteenth-century copies.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.