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@Spencro

"The main required text was the massive 1000+ page Robinson edition of the Complete Works, which was an Oxford paperback printed in double columns. Mine fell apart well before the end of the year."

:-) I love the concrete, tangible nature of this image. Happy days.

#Chaucer #paperbacks #LivingWithBooks

Whan that Aprill commes
And bathes every veyne
Soote swich licour

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #April #Rain #Chaucer #CanterburyTales #Prologue #Literature #Medieval #Poetry #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026

April 6, 2026

Whan that Aprille with
His shoures soote, the droghte
Of March hath perced

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Chaucer #GeoffreyChaucer #CanterburyTales #Canterbury #Prologue #Spring #Rain #Renewal #NewLife #Pilgrimage

April 5, 2025

[Bloo Bouk] The LUKE vowel with yod, HUGH type, standardised. left: Nordic, EW; right: non-Nordic, U (UE in closed monosyllables). ew < eow [Old English]; cf. Chaucer: valu, vertu. #Chaucer #EnglishSpelling #literature #SamuelJohnson #phonetics #linguistics #orthography

[Bloo Bouk] The LUKE vowel standardised. left: Nordic, OO; right: non-Nordic, U (UE in monosyllables). shoe < shoo, cf. Chaucer: And shoos full moiste and newe (Canterbury Tales, 456). #Chaucer #EnglishSpelling #literature #SamuelJohnson #phonetics #linguistics #orthography

[Bloo Bouk] The BOOK vowel standardised. left: Nordic, OU; right: non-Nordic [French], UI. fout < foot, cf. King Horn: And setten fout to grunde (138). cf. Havelok the Dane: coude. #Chaucer #EnglishSpelling #literature #SamuelJohnson #phonetics #linguistics #orthography

[Bloo Bouk] The DOUG vowel standardised. left: general, U; right: before consonant and vowel, Ù. Happy to see *cuntry* makes for joy and laughter. An orthographic necessity. #Chaucer #EnglishSpelling #literature #SamuelJohnson #phonetics #linguistics #orthography

[Bloo Bouk] The ROSE vowel standardised. left: General, OE (Œ); right: non-Nordic more than one syllable, stressed position, Ó. #Chaucer #EnglishSpelling #literature #SamuelJohnson #phonetics #linguistics #orthography

[Bloo Bouk] The MIKE vowel standardised. left: General, Y; right: final letter more than one syllable, EY (str. ÉY). Tym < time recurrent in #Chaucer and Wycliffe's bible. Ryt < write, right, rite. #EnglishSpelling #literature #SamuelJohnson #phonetics #linguistics #orthography

[Bloo Bouk] The PETE vowel standardised. left: General, EE; right: non-Nordic more than one syllable, stressed position, É. Note pees < peace, dreem etc., recurrent in #Chaucer and Wycliffe's bible. #EnglishSpelling #literature #SamuelJohnson #phonetics #linguistics #orthography

[Bloo Bouk] The JANE vowel standardised. left: General, AE (Æ); right: non-Nordic more than one syllable, stressed position, Á. Note æt > ate, eight; ræn > rain, rein, reign. #EnglishSpelling #literature #Chaucer #SamuelJohnson #phonetics #linguistics #orthography

[Bloo Bouk] The beginning of Beowulf in the prose translation of a friend in Oxford (professor of Old English), now in the bloo-bouk system: all reassignments of digraphs are organic and vernacular, no innovation. #EnglishSpelling #literature #Chaucer #lexicography #Beowulf #orthography

[Bloo Bouk] The CROWN vowel standardised. left: Nordic, AU. right: non-Nordic, OU. Note faund < fynd [Nordic] vs. found > founded [non-Nordic] #EnglishSpelling #literature #Chaucer #SamuelJohnson #phonetics #linguistics #orthography

[Bloo Bouk] The MAUD vowel standardised. left: Nordic, OA. right: non-Nordic, AU. foat < fought, loa < law, but caut < caught [non-Nordic, from Fr. cacher] #EnglishSpelling #literature #Chaucer #SamuelJohnson #phonetics #linguistics #lexicography