Chaucer's Strother and Berwickshire

Author / Editor
Breeze, Andrew.

Title
Chaucer's Strother and Berwickshire

Published
Notes and Queries 254 (2009): 21-23.

Description
For both linguistic and political reasons, the town in RvT from which John and Aleyn hail may be identified as Westruther in Berwickshire, making Chaucer's rendition of their speech "the first imitation of Scots dialect in English literature."

Chaucer Subjects
Reeve and His Tale.
Language and Word Studies