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Re: Norman French?

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 20, 1998, 6:15
Raymond A. Brown scripsit:

> [H]ence 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 :)
Right. *Stratford*-atte-Bowe (where is Bowe, anyway?). -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.