The 'Dialect' of Chaucer's Reeve

Author / Editor
Knox, Philip.

Title
The 'Dialect' of Chaucer's Reeve

Published
ChauR 49.01 (2014): 101-24.

Description
The Reeve's dialect is usually considered a rendering of Norfolk dialect. However, Knox argues that the word "ik" indicates a Norfolk joke, revealing the Reeve's anachronistic and backwards speech.

Chaucer Subjects
Reeve and His Tale
Language and Word Studies