Pennies, Pence, and Pans: Some Chaucerian Misreadings

Author / Editor
Horobin, S. C. P.

Title
Pennies, Pence, and Pans: Some Chaucerian Misreadings

Published
English Studies 84: 426-30, 2003.

Description
In RvT 3944 and FrT 1614, "panne" can be read as the plural of penny instead of pan or dish. In early fourteenth-century Type II London dialect, "panne" is a common variant of "peni." In this light, Chaucer's authorship of fragments B and C of Rom ought to be reconsidered.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.
Romaunt of the Rose.