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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
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
British Isles
Century:
13
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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
Conference Info:
- , -
Year of Publication:
2003.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
0859917622