The Wife of Bath's 'Sweet Because'

Author / Editor
Rigg, A. G.

Title
The Wife of Bath's 'Sweet Because'

Published
Notes and Queries 257 (2012): 315-16.

Description
Two Anglo-Latin "celibacy poems" use "quoniam" to mean the same thing that it means in WBP, prompting the question, might a "joke have been circulating among thirteenth and fourteenth century clerics, that every "quare" has its 'quoniam'?"

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Language and Word Studies