Johnyxxx
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Hello.
There is a passage in Three Impostors (1895) by Arthur Machen which reads as follows:
When he had settled himself on an exiguous bench, and had ordered some beer, he began to listen to the jangling talk in the public bar beyond; it was a senseless argument, alternately furious and maudlin, with appeals to Bill and Tom, and mediæval survivals of speech, words that Chaucer wrote belched out with zeal and relish, and the din of pots jerked down and coppers rapped smartly on the zinc counter made a thorough bass for it all.
Out of sheer curiosity, I would like to ask if some words that were used in the days of Geoffrey Chaucer are still in usage today. Judging by the aforementioned text, they evidently were some hundred and thrirty years ago.
Thank you very much.
There is a passage in Three Impostors (1895) by Arthur Machen which reads as follows:
When he had settled himself on an exiguous bench, and had ordered some beer, he began to listen to the jangling talk in the public bar beyond; it was a senseless argument, alternately furious and maudlin, with appeals to Bill and Tom, and mediæval survivals of speech, words that Chaucer wrote belched out with zeal and relish, and the din of pots jerked down and coppers rapped smartly on the zinc counter made a thorough bass for it all.
Out of sheer curiosity, I would like to ask if some words that were used in the days of Geoffrey Chaucer are still in usage today. Judging by the aforementioned text, they evidently were some hundred and thrirty years ago.
Thank you very much.