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» All right, you English nerds: Geoffrey Chaucer hath a blog. I can almost read this. (via rw)
 [ 03.29.06 ]


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Try reading aloud. I found that helped me when I was reading the Canterbury Tales (and even Shakespeare sometimes).

Well, maybe that's overkill. The Chaucerian blog is probably meant more in the line of something like Abbie the Cat.

No, I agree with you. That's exactly how I got through my Chaucer class in college, but it's such a long time since then....

And then there's reading it out loud, but as Chaucer would have pronounced it. I used to think that Monty Python was kidding around when they pronounced "knight" something like "kunigit," but then I took Chaucer. I wish I had my old pronunciation key around. Yes, I am an English nerd!



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