... fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Chaucerian poets in both England and Scotland labeled Chaucer "the master of rhetoric and eloquent diction- (Horobin, 2). The following quotations from John Lydgate's Life of Our Lady (ll. 1628-34) is typical of the fifteenth-century response to Chaucer's linguistic legacy: And eke ... to form a basis to go by. After speaking about the London dialect of the fourteenth century as being standardized by Chaucer, it is important to talk about some of the pronunciations, spelling changes and grammar changes in the Chaucerian Standard. "Like most ME, especial...

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