chaucer

excerpts from Chaucer's works read by professors
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Middle English Pronunciation Guidelines

A basic Chaucer glossary

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Comments: chaucer

We been bresting to axe what happened when the Miller told his tale?
Posted by Nora at January 16, 2004 01:05 AM

Pardee ich noot

"My mouth by then like cardboard
seemed to slip straight through my head"

thinketh outrely nyce
Posted by boynton at January 16, 2004 09:45 AM

ilke!
Posted by Nora at January 17, 2004 01:17 AM

Middle English pronunciation is a lot like dutch

Nora will have a chance to practise....when the eagle lands...soon!
Posted by Averil at January 17, 2004 09:32 AM

So Averil, is that just sort of German with lost of hchs?
eg:

http://www.stanford.edu/~sipma/dupron.html

CH "a sound like you make when you clear your throat to spit"

G "a sound like you make when you clear your throat to spit"

and (in bare German) Tehadler ist gelandet?
Posted by boynton at January 17, 2004 04:19 PM

No, it sounds like the noise that elderly Dutch people make when they think of Germans. The noise the younger ones make when they find zonked Americans falling in a canal is more like contemporary Glaswegian. Clearing the throat and "tsk'ing at the same time.
Posted by David Tiley at January 17, 2004 07:32 PM

Averil was impressed by your Stanford link and her own pronunciation was pretty close! BTW Tehadler ist gelandet.
Posted by Nora at January 18, 2004 05:05 AM