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Re: Norman French?

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Monday, October 19, 1998, 21:52
Raymond A. Brown diz i nav:
> It was practice > of schools to teach French as spoken in England hence in Chaucer's > Canterbury Tales we have the nun who speaks French perfectly according to > the school of St.Mary-atte-Bowe (may have misremembered the name!), but > couldn't understand the French of Paris :)
"For Frensh of Paris was to hir unknowe" (I think I got the spelling right) -- "It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged." - Irish proverb http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Conlang/W.html ICQ: 18656696 AOL: NikTailor