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  • Record Number: 7381
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Dance , Richard.
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  • Title: The AB Language: The Recluse, the Gossip, and the Language Historian [The AB language is the dialect of the "Ancrene Wisse" and the "Katherine Group." It came from the Herefordshire/Shropshire area. In style and vocabulary it combines the homespun with the learned. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: A Companion to "Ancrene Wisse."  Edited by Yoko Wada.  D. S. Brewer, 2003.  Pages 57 - 82.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Ancrene Wisse, Middle English Devotional Work Dialects Linguistics Middle English Language Orthography and Spelling Vocabulary
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 13
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  • Related Resources: Richard Dance's essay, "The AB Language: the Recluse, the Gossip, and the Language Historian," gives a useful overview of how the dialects in two manuscripts came to be privileged. [The manuscripts are Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 402 (A), contain
  • Author's Affiliation: University of Cambridge
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  • Year of Publication: 2003.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0859917622