Re: a weird question...
| From: | andrew <hobbit@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 22, 1999, 5:51 |
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On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
> Nah. The word has been attested for centuries. I remember
> reading a text somewhere -- the place escapes me -- about
> all the little "dogges and cattes". (Chaucer, maybe? Dunno...
> it's shows up later than that, though, I think. )
>
A quick dip into the glossary of The Riverside Chaucer produced these two
examples:
"For in this world nys dogge for the bowe" (Canterbury Tales III 1369)
"Shulle in a strete as dogges liggen dede" (Troilus and Criseyde 4.626)
- andrew.
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