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)
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was hanged." - Irish proverb
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