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colloquialism
Reviews
Author(s) Title Reference
P.M. Kean Functional change in Early English, by Donald W. Lee 18/, p. 78
R.T. Davies Romance and Chronicle. A Study of Malory's Prose Style, by P. J. C. Field 42/2, p. 184
Cecily Clark Chaucer's English, by Ralph W. V. Elliott

languages

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  • Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century

people

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