The Short Form Þt in Hengwrt and Ellesmere: A Shorthand Symbol as Opposed to a Contraction.

Author / Editor
Ibrahim, Yasmin.

Title
The Short Form Þt in Hengwrt and Ellesmere: A Shorthand Symbol as Opposed to a Contraction.

Published
Notes and Queries 264 (2019): 510-12.

Description
Confronts as an "orthographic paradox" Scribe B’s uses of "Þt," arguing that the "short form is not specific to the orthography of the exemplar but generic to all variants" of the word "that."

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Language and Word Studies