New Solutions for Words in Thomas Speght's Chaucer Glossaries.

Author / Editor
Robertson, Michael.

Title
New Solutions for Words in Thomas Speght's Chaucer Glossaries.

Published
Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 43 (2022): 55-93.

Description
Accounts for seventeen words found in the glossaries of Speght's 1598 and 1602 editions of Chaucer's works that are labeled "unidentified" in Jürgen Schäfer’s "Early Modern English Lexicography" (1989), tracing them "to manuscript variants and corruptions or misprints in the text of Chaucer" and assessing attestations of these g"host words" in later dictionaries and elsewhere.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations