The Story of English: How the English Language Conquered the World.
- Author / Editor
- Gooden, Philip.
The Story of English: How the English Language Conquered the World.
- Published
- London: Quercus, 2009.
- Physical Description
- 223 pp.; color illus.
- Description
- Includes a chapter entitled "Chaucer's English" (pp. 56-71) that focuses on the growth of the dominance of the East Midland dialect over other dialects of Middle English, with commentary on Chaucer's English and CT, the "Gawain"-poet, Wyclif, the plague, and Caxton. Includes a sidebar featuring discussion of the word "gentilesse."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies