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Chaucer’s Manuscripts: The Canterbury Tales as a Living Linguistic Laboratory
Episode 82
Published 5 days, 14 hours ago
Description
Explore how Chaucer’s late‑medieval text, preserved in dozens of hand‑written copies before the printing press, offers a rare window into dialectal variation, orthographic change, and early modern English syntax. From scribes’ idiosyncrasies to Caxton’s London edition, this episode traces how one work shaped spelling norms, grammar, and even contemporary AI language models.
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