Metathesis in Chaucer's English

Author / Editor
Jimura, Akiyuki.

Title
Metathesis in Chaucer's English

Published
Masahiko Kanno, Gregory K. Jember, and Yoshiyuki Nakao, eds. A Love of Words: English Philological Studies in Honour of Akira Wada (Tokyo: Eihosha, 1998), pp. 103-14.

Description
Some examples of metathesis in CT and TC (e.g., ax/ask, thurgh/thrugh, open/opne) may result from modern editorial selection; others (e.g., lisped/lipsed in GP 1.264-65) may indicate Chaucer's creative indication of individual speech patterns.

Alternative Title
Love of Words: English Philological Studies in Honour of Akira Wada .

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.