ENG300Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Courtly Love, Great Vowel Shift, Geoffrey Chaucer
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English so it sounded less like french and the other continental languages. It is unknown but it might have been because of emigration issues, the standardization of. But by the time shakespeare came around, people were pronouncing. English very differently than from chaucer"s time: writing at the centre of english culture in the 14th century, it made his language become the standard use of middle english. It helped that chaucer worked in the english courts. Thus, some words were spelled different ways even in the same manuscript: you pronounce every letter in middle english; especially at the end of a line you pronounce the final e attached to the word. Long vowels sound like their romance or french counterparts, but short vowels are pronounced the same (3) says he has trouble sleeping. He focuses on her uncertainty of what happens to her husband (90) her fear that her husband"s dead stems from her anxiety and melancholy.
