A Northern Idiom in RvT: 3964, 'As digne as water in a dich'

Author / Editor
Pearcy, Roy J.

Title
A Northern Idiom in RvT: 3964, 'As digne as water in a dich'

Published
ChauR 36: 370-73, 2002.

Description
In RvT, Symkin's wife is not as "worthy as stinking ditch water" but "as worthy as ditch water is stinking."

Chaucer Subjects
Reeve and His Tale.